Orin phones Hal about Himself's suicide — "This grief-counselor insisted I call him…"
‘This grief-counselor insisted I call him by his first name, which I forget. A large red meaty character with eyebrows at a demonic-looking synclinal angle and very small nubbly gray teeth. And a mustache. He always had the remains of a sneeze in his mustache. I got to know that mustache very well. […]
Context
Hal — who tests out Beyond Eidetic — forgets exactly one datum from the most brutal six weeks of his life: the name the grief-therapist insisted on. The sensory record is savagely intact; the one item of intimacy the man demanded is gone. Selective forgetting as a verdict, filed inside a recall demonstration.