Molly Notkin's party: Joelle's overdose — "How would you rig the thing…"
How would you rig the thing so it would activate with the door open? Is there just some sort of refrigerator-light button you could hold down and secure with tape? Would the tape melt? She cannot remember thinking of it once in four years. Did she kill him, somehow, just inclining veilless over that lens?
Context
Joelle suddenly working the mechanics of JOI's microwave suicide like an engineering problem — and then the sentence that makes it a memory passage: four years in which she cannot remember thinking of it even once. Suppression stated as fact, breaking open precisely on the day she's planned her own death; the question it uncorks is the guilt the suppression was holding down.