Hal in V.R. 6 with Wave Bye-Bye to the Bureaucrat
This is the very last temporally feasible train: if the bureaucrat misses this train he’ll be late again, and terminated. […] As he careers down the long stairway he keeps his crazed eyes on the open doors of the 0816 train, willing them to stay open just a little longer. […] Finally, filmed in a glacial slo-mo, the bureaucrat leaps from the seventh-to-the-bottom step and lunges toward the train’s open doors
Context
Inside JOI's short didactic film Wave Bye-Bye to the Bureaucrat, which Hal runs twice alone in Viewing Room 6 the night deLint tells him he "never quite occurred" out there: a chronically late man's whole existence compressed into one clock-governed sprint, and at the decisive instant the film itself slows time down — Himself's camera doing the subjective time-dilation the rest of the book does in prose. The only survivor of Carlisle's slow-motion trio (071/132/120) to carry actual DFW slow-motion text.