Hal and Orin on the phone: JOI's suicide (p. 244)
‘After a burial, rural Papineau-region Québecers purportedly drill a small hole down from ground level all the way down through the lid of the coffin, to let out the soul, if it wants out.’
Context
The second burial-lore item in Hal's deflection sequence, delivered while Orin keeps trying to say he's being followed. A hole drilled down to the coffin lid to let the soul out rhymes darkly with the head-sized hole JOI drilled through the microwave door — and with the soul that does, in fact, want out, given where the wraith arc goes. (Carlisle adds that Papineau is Marathe country; his linkage, recorded.)