Fackelmann, Sunshine, the beach (Memory and Forgetting)
As the floor wafted up and C’s grip finally gave, the last thing Gately saw was an Oriental bearing down with the held square and he looked into the square and saw clearly a reflection of his own big square pale head with its eyes closing as the floor finally pounced. And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.
Context
The last words of the novel, and they happen entirely inside remembered time: the pharm-grade Sunshine takes Gately under, and the coming-to isn't a return to the hospital bed — it's the memory's own next scene, the beach at low tide after the blackout. The book that taught Abiding-by-memory ends by never surfacing from the remembering: the present tense is simply not resumed. Memory as the novel's terminal location.