Scene 093: hal teeth dream wyyy

• p. 449: dateline VERY LATE OCTOBER Y.D.A.U.
• p. 450: the recurring dream — teeth "like shale," splintering and melting to grit; the nightmare-Schacht "late for his next appointment"; the universal seeing-and-not-saying, watches and vague excuses; "He was pricing dentures when he woke"; keys on the floor by the College Board prep books; an hour to dawn drills.
• p. 450: Mario's empty bed, five pillows stacked — nights at HmH on a sarcophagally tapered GoreTex bag before Tavis's Tatsuoka, listening to WYYY-109; Madame Psychosis's unannounced sabbatical from the midnight slot; WYYY "evasive and unforthcoming"; the two-day 'Miss Diagnosis' experiment (Horkheimer and Adorno against narcotized Partridge Family); no one of "managerial pitch or timbre" will say what her story is; Hal's comfort-logic — if she'd left for good they'd have had to announce it; Hal, Schtitt, and the Moms all remark the agitation of a kid who is "usually next to impossible to agitate" (n.180: Avril has Thorp sneak Mario into the freezing pink YYY basement, where the carbuncular engineer answers only by pointing at her tripartite onionskin screen folded beneath a handless wall-clock — no hiatus can be that long if she left her trusty screen; Mario hadn't known M.P. used a screen on-air; "That's when he'd gotten agitated").
• p. 450: now 'Sixty Minutes More or Less' runs with nobody at the helm — the weird static ambient musics as foreground instead of environment, "momentumless music as subject" terribly disturbing; Hal listens a few minutes and tells his brother "it sounded like somebody's mind coming apart right before your ears."

Backward

• Why she's gone (dramatic irony Mario never gets): Joelle's freebase suicide attempt at Molly Notkin's party (pp. 227-240, scene 062) and subsequent detox; she enters Ennet House 8 Nov YDAU per n.134 — the beloved voice is about to surface in Gately's world, three scenes after Gately's own (090/092).
• "Somebody's mind coming apart right before your ears" is proleptic self-description: Hal's November unraveling and the Year of Glad opening, where his intact inner voice emerges as inhuman noise (pp. 3-17, scenes 001/003).

Forward

• Mario's nightly ritual with the show — and his conviction that she can't sense "the compelling beauty and light she projects over the air" (p. 191) — established at pp. 189-193; later his insomniac walk is arrested by Ennet House actually playing a recording of the show from an upper window (p. 592; scene 117, pp. 589-593).
• The on-air screen (n.180) joins Joelle's U.H.I.D. veil and the legend of the P.G.O.A.T. (pp. 531-538, scene 104; n.24's Medusa-v.-Odalisque optics) — concealment doubled past function; it also rhymes with the U.H.I.D. legate's earlier offer of veiled membership to Mario himself (scene 071, pp. 316-317).
• The teeth thread: the incipient carie amid the gala sweets (p. 410, scene 087) and the bad tooth's "little electric shivers" at the next morning's drills (pp. 452-459, scene 094 territory) — the dream sits between cause and symptom; the seeing-but-not-confronting dream-logic prefigures the staff's actual non-confrontation of Hal's habit until the urine crisis (Pemulis thread; nn. 321/324/332).

• p. 450: "his teeth had become like shale and splintered when he tried to chew" — the dream image; bodily decay as open secret.
• p. 450: "a general atmosphere of the splintering teeth being a symptom of something way more dire and distasteful that no one wanted to confront him about" — the scene's thesis; Hal's condition in miniature.
• p. 450: "it sounded like somebody's mind coming apart right before your ears" — Hal's verdict on the unhelmed static; proleptic of his own Year of Glad interior.