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Fackelmann's scam; the wraith returns (p. 921)

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that nebulized Mucomyst is for (and here his voice makes it clear he’s reciting from memory, like to show off) abnormal, viscid, or inspissated post-traumatic mucus, not potential hemorrhaging or edema

Context

Dr. Pressburger performing for the gorgeous R.N. over Gately's bed: verbatim journal-recall deployed as courtship display. A comic flicker of the memory-as-performance strand — the faculty Gately is using to stay alive being used eight feet away to impress a nurse.

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