The Concavity cabinet; Clipperton (p. 399)
GENTLE DECLARES ALL U.S. TERRITORY NORTH OF LINE FROM SYRACUSE TO TICONDEROGA, NY, TICONDEROGA, NY TO SALEM, MA FEDERAL DISASTERS, OFFERS FEDERAL AID FOR UPSTATE AND NEW ENGLAND RESIDENTS WISHING TO RELOCATE, CLAIMS FUNDS FOR EPA CLEAN-UP ‘ARE NOT WITHIN THE MAP OF WHAT’S POSSIBLE’ [SIC]—Header from Chemically Over-Garrulous Headliner Eventually Fired Even from Subheader Dept. for Exceeding Verbal Parameters […]
Context
Mario's headline montage, right as Gentle declares the Northeast a federal disaster and the giveaway machinery starts turning. Buried in the logorrheic headline is "map" doing idiom-duty ("the map of what's possible") pages before the scene mints "eliminate own map" in earnest — the vocabulary warming up in the wings. (The [SIC] is DFW's own text, part of the headline-writer joke.)