Orin phones Hal about Himself's suicide — "Also it just hit me I’ve…"
‘Also it just hit me I’ve got a library book I was supposed to return. I’d forgotten all about it. Kertwang.’
Context
Deployed at the exact moment Orin presses hardest on "reconstructed": a suddenly-remembered library book, flagged as fake by its own "Kertwang." A two-second performance of forgetting-and-recalling used as an exit ramp from real remembering.