The Orin–Hal phone call (p. 1008)
‘But it’s not like flirtatious or salivious, your manner. More like just strongly involuntarily attracted. Almost as if hypnotized against your will. […] Following the movements of the fork as if memerized. With, of course now, the occasional flicker of pain and conflict in your eyes, at the fact that here you are involuntarily memerized by somebody other than your serapic wife, which the point—’ ‘Time. Yo. I think you mean seraphic. I also think you meant lascivious and mesmerized.’
Context
The malaprop-correction dance that structures the whole call: Orin pitches Speedy Seduction Strategy #7 through a fog of mangled vocabulary (salivious, memerized, serapic), and Hal calls time to fix all three at once — having already flagged "proviso" a page earlier. Compulsive correction as the brothers' intimacy protocol: Avril's training running in both of them, one as error-generator, one as error-catcher.