Stice's bed and Lyle on objects — "Ortho Stice can think of only…"
Ortho Stice can think of only three possible explanations for what’s going on, and he presents them to an attentive cheek-sucking Lyle in ascending order of grimness. One is that Stice is telekinetic, but only in his sleep. Two is that somebody else at E.T.A. is telekinetic and has it in for Stice and wants to drive him batsoid for some reason. Three is that Stice is like getting up in his sleep and rearranging the room without knowing it or remembering it, which means he’s a severe fucking somnambulist, which means Lord only knows what all else he could get up and wander around and do in his sleep.
Context
Stice's complete taxonomy of the possible — telekinesis, hostile telekinesis, somnambulism — is comic precisely because the true fourth option (a dead filmmaker who can move objects) isn't thinkable yet. The book keeps running this gag: Rusk's counterphobia (108), the Tunnel Club's hamsters (129) — rational frames swallowing the haunting whole. This is the first and cleanest instance.