Fackelmann's scam and the wraith's return (p. 922)
Without a pencil and notebook he couldn’t even seem to get across a request for a notebook and pencil; it was like he was trapped inside his huge chattering head. […] they were leaving him trapped in himself, a figurant, mute and unmoving and blank like the House’s catatonic lady slumped moist and pale in her chair […] silent and dead-faced even when touching a tree or propped up amid exploding front-lawn firecrackers. Or the wraith’s nonexistent kid.
Context
The figurant doctrine turned literal on its listener: Gately, voiceless in the frame of his own scene, catalogues himself with the book's mutes — and ends the list on "the wraith's nonexistent kid," i.e. Hal as JOI perceived him. One visit was all it took for the wraith's vocabulary to become Gately's self-description. Pairs with scene 001 from the other side.