The simultaneity-montage glimpse: hunched in the library stall
texture · 11 Nov YDAU
- When: 11 Nov YDAU (the cross-cut "at just this moment" montage), Armenian Foundation Library men's room, near the Watertown Arsenal
- What: In the seven-way simultaneity montage (Gately asleep, Pemulis & Struck in the Pharmacy library, Steeply's sedan at E.T.A., etc.), Poor Tony's single beat: hunched forward in the library stall "in his ghastly suspenders and purloined cap, his elbows on his knees and his face in his hands, getting a whole new perspective on time" — the mid-Withdrawal low, three days before the seizure. A locating cross-cut, not a new development.