yrstruly's Xmas Eve (p. 132)
Poor Tony seems white and detracted on the train playng with his feather snake and says he says he seems in his mind maybe to recall an involvment in some type deal where Dr. Wo might of got slightly got over on and burnt and that maybe down in Chinatown we could air on the side of low profiles and try to cop some where else except from the Wos’.
Context
Memory performed as evasion: Poor Tony "seems in his mind maybe to recall" — three hedges deep — an involvement he in fact knows cold, as the testimony's later pages admit. A remembered performance of vague remembering, transcribed by a narrator who (also retrospectively) clocked that something was off. Everyone who trusts the hedged recall dies of it. (All orthography authorial dialect, byte-exact.)