Gately's hospital visitors (Maps and Territory)

quote

Thrust says Clenette H. and Yolanda W. are taking meals in their room and are under orders not to come down or go near any windows, because of what happened to the map of the Nuck they allegedly stomped and everything like that. Gately mews and blinks like mad.

Context

"The map of the Nuck" — the dead man reduced entirely to his map in House shorthand; what happened to it is the thing Clenette and Yolanda are being legally cloistered over. Gately's mewing panic is the answer he can't get.

Quoted from

Scene 161: gately hospital visitors

In anthology

Maps and Territorytexture