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The attaché wets the recliner (p. 54)

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At 0015h., 2 April, the medical attaché’s wife is just leaving the Mount Auburn Total Fitness Center […] The medical attaché, at their apartment, is still viewing the unlabelled cartridge, which he has rewound to the beginning several times and then configured for a recursive loop. He sits there, attached to a congealed supper, watching, at 0020h., having now wet both his pants and the special recliner.

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The third beat of the attaché countdown, and the whole scene is built on two clock-pulses: 0015h. the wife leaves the club, 0020h. the husband is still in the chair, five minutes of the Entertainment's real time ticked off in the prose's own dateline machinery. The military-time stamps are what let the book run her evening and his dying simultaneously — clock-architecture as form. (Binding exclusion: the pulse-serial is a formal device, so 014 carries no time-perception tag; this is a motif sighting only.)

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