The Ennet House living room: Gately, Day, Lenz — "Gately checks his own cheap digital…"
Gately checks his own cheap digital, head still hung over the sofa’s arm. ‘I got 0832:14, 15, 16, Randy.’
Context
Gately's peacekeeping contribution to the watch war, and a tiny perfect image of the theme: the time can't even be reported before it's gone — three seconds stream by in the space of saying them. The digital watch treating time like pi, demonstrated live.