Gately's day in the Ennet House living room (p. 276)
Gately likes Green because he seems to have got sense enough to keep his map shut when he’s got nothing important to say, which is basically all the time.
Context
Gately on Dream Duty, cataloguing the residents; his read on Bruce Green, the quiet Leisure Time Ice driver. Map as mouth rather than face — the same street register the killing-idiom runs in, used for once about staying silent instead of dying, in Gately's own narrating voice. (An incidental find alongside the p. 280 passage.)