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Gately's dream-M.D. temptation — "Ferocious Francis is sitting in the…"

quote

Ferocious Francis is sitting in the chair that the wraith and Ewell and Calvin Thrust had all sat in […]

Context

One relative clause doing quiet doctrinal work: the wraith filed in the visitor-list between Ewell and Calvin Thrust, just another caller who used the chair. Gately's narration has stopped segregating the dead from the living — the haunting normalized into hospital furniture.

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