Hal's Year-of-Glad flash-forward: Gately and Hal dig up Himself's head

texture · late Nov YG (2010)

• When: late Nov YG (Hal's ER-bound reverie); the dig itself undated/proleptic — [UNDATED (future/imagined)]. In-world the LAST material though it links forward from the hospital "Too Late" dream (event 56)
• What: [Not a Gately-present event — a proleptic cross-reference, carried for its arc-linkage to event 56.] In Hal's stream of consciousness on the stretcher, he pictures "John N. R. Wayne... standing watch in a mask as Donald Gately and I dig up my father's head." The novel's sole forward-linkage of Gately to Hal by name; no event has actually occurred between them in the novel.