Fackelmann's scam, the wraith returns (p. 925)
Sometimes Gately would come out of a Demerol-nod and look at pale passive Pamela lying there sleeping beautifully and undergo a time-lapse clairvoyant thing where he could almost visibly watch her losing her looks through her twenties and her face starting to slide over off her skull onto the pillow she held like a stuffed toy, becoming a lounge-hag right before his eyes.
Context
Inside the flashback: narcotic time-distortion as involuntary clairvoyance — the Demerol-nod runs a decade of Pamela Hoffman-Jeep's future in fast-forward, a whole aging compressed into one look, and DFW names the mechanism in film language ("time-lapse"). Carlisle overlays Hamlet's "to this favor she must come" from the graveyard scene onto this vision — his family-hamlet reading, recorded, not adopted here.