Joelle visits Gately: Abiding

quote

Joelle says she can’t stay long this time: all nonworking residents have to report for the House’s A.M. daily-meditation meeting, as Gately knows only too well. He isn’t sure what she means by ‘this time.’

Context

One clause quietly reports that Gately's fever has eaten a hole in the record: she's visited and mopped his forehead before (pp. 707, 817-818), and none of it took. Carlisle's continuity catch — recall failure as dramatic irony, four words long.

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Scene 166: joelle visits gately abiding

In anthology

Memory and Forgettingsupporting