Fortier imagines Tine's hand guiding Gentle's pen to declare War

texture · ?/12-14 Nov YDAU

• When: ?/12-14 Nov YDAU (Fortier on the southbound bus, scene 147)
• What: As the A.F.R. cell-leader M. Fortier rides a Boston bus imagining the samizdat loosed on the city, his vision of the political endgame puts Tine at Gentle's elbow: he imagines "M. Tine holding the hand holding the pen of President J. Gentle" as the O.N.A.N.ite President signs a declaration of War. Tine does not appear in person; the beat records how the enemy pictures him — the intelligence chief as the literal hand behind the President's signature. [Attribution note: imagined, Fortier POV; Tine absent.]