The cheese-pizza line: quoted through McKenna

timeline_event

texture · 20 Nov YDAU (offstage)

When: 20 Nov YDAU, morning, relayed at the doorway of the viewing room where Hal lies.
What: Gopnik's exit from the book is another kid quoting him. Kieran McKenna, gauze-wrapped and sprinting the halls with news of the Stice-window disaster, runs Gopnik's coinage on the injured Ortho Stice ("The Darkness"): "Gopnik said he looks like a piece of cheese pizza where somebody tore the cheese off. Gopnik said Troeltsch is charging two bucks a look." Offstage, secondhand, and pure Gopnik: the cohort's most quotable cruelty, plus the going market rate.