Gately's hospital visitors (p. 823)

Gately — intubated, unable to speak, blinking in crude code — and the question that matters most to a man on probation is framed in his own interior narration as demapping. The idiom at real mortal stakes: did I kill anyone is unaskable and unthinkable except as whether any maps got eliminated, the street euphemism doing the work of keeping the thought survivable.