The annulation lecture for Arslanian — "As if time itself were vastly…"
‘As if time itself were vastly sped up. As if nature itself had desperately to visit the lavatory.’
Context
Pemulis, holding blindfolded Idris Arslanian's bladder hostage in the tunnel hallway, delivers the novel's plainest annular-fusion lecture: the eastern Concavity's catapult-fed cycles run Grid 3 from wasteland to monstrous lushness several times a month — hyperfloration as run-amok time, which Pemulis then flips inside-out into deceleration via Watson's mnemonic. Landscape-scale time-warp, the Concavity as a place where time itself has a different speed. (Annularity owns the scene's tag; this is the lived-time residue.)