[quote]I'm sorry I don't have the page number offhand, but there's another reference to grave digging and JOI's head -- it's when Gatley is in the hospital, floating in and out of consciousness. He has a dream about digging up someone's head with a "sad kid" and someone else. Gatley doesn't understand what's going on but is told it's of inter- continental importance. (I'm paraphrasing left and right). And I *think* he's told they specifically need something inside JOI's head. And as I recall, he's also told they're too late.[quote]
It's on page 934, and I think it's really important, but I don't know how or why just yet.
And but so there's this, too: JOI killed himself by putting his head in a microwave oven. Hal was the first person on the scene afterwards. Here's part of his conversation with Orin about what he saw:
"Or have you for example, say, ever like baked a potato in a microwave oven? Did you know you have to cut the potato open before you turn the oven on? Do you know why that is?"
"Jesus."
"The "B.[oston] P.[olice] D.[epartment] field pathologist said the build-up of internal pressues would have been almost instantaneous and equivalent in kg.s.cm to over two sticks of TNT."
"Jesus Christ, Hallie."
"Hence the need to reconstruct the scene." (page 251)
Later on in the same scene (page 253) Hal says, "The B.P.D. field pathologist who drew the chalk lines around Himself's shoes on the floor said maybe ten seconds tops. He said the pressure build-up would have been almost instantaneous. Then he gestured at the kitchen walls. Then he threw up. The field pathologist."
So there's no head left to bury--except maybe a few bits and pieces scraped off the kitchen walls.
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