The Orin–Hal phone call — "pretends he gets the most retardate…"
—pretends he gets the most retardate PR staffer he can make hold the crayon to send grotesque solecistic pseudo-impersonal replies to her pathetic letters. Jethro Bodine, O.? Jethro Bodine?
Context
Mid-eruption, Hal names the form letter's method: "grotesque solecistic pseudo-impersonal replies" — the word solecistic itself doing the diagnosing. Orin's defense ("A private chuckle. She’d never get it.") only sharpens it: the errors are authored, and the audience is the one reader guaranteed to feel each one. Companion to the p. 1007 artifact in the spine.