Dawn drills and the second world (pp. 460–461)
‘Simple,’ Schtitt shrugs, so that the upraised pointer seems to stab at the sky. ‘Hit,’ he suggests. ‘Move. Travel lightly. Occur. Be here. Not in bed or shower or over baconschteam, in the mind. Be here in total. Is nothing else. […] Gentlemen: hit tennis balls. Fire at your will. Use a head. You are not arms. Arm in the real tennis is like wheels of vehicles. Not engine. Legs: not either. Where is where you apply for citizenship in second world Mr. consciousness of ankle Incandenza, our revenant?’ Hal can lean out and spit in a way that isn’t insolent. ‘Head, sir.’
Context
End of dawn drills, 9 November: Schtitt has just offered the boys "citizenship" in the second world inside the court's lines, and he pins the offer on Hal by name — "our revenant." The epithet's second scene, and the point where it stops being a joke about the ankle: the ghost-word plus the question of where consciousness gets to live, aimed at the boy headed for the Year of Glad. ("Baconschteam" and the syntax are Schtitt's idiolect, exact as written; the session's earlier "Mr. revenant" is filed in Texture.)