The Madame Psychosis show (xii)
Some of Orin and Mario and Hal’s earliest memories are of nodding off at the dining-room table and being gently carried by a very tall man to bed. This was in a different house. Madame Psychosis’s cued musics stir very early memories of Mario’s father. […] Prandial music holds little charm or associations for Hal, who like most of the kids on double daily drills makes fists around his utensils and eats like a wild dog.
Context
Mid-supper at the Headmaster's House: the brothers' shared earliest memory (the very tall man, the different house) stated as inventory, then the mechanism — Joelle's broadcast music stirring "very early memories of Mario's father," involuntary memory by radio. The trimmed-around Hal clause is the quiet kicker: the same music holds "little charm or associations" for Hal, seeding the Mario-remembers/Hal-suspects contrast that 155 and 179 pay off.