"Brown left Milgrim in the Korean's laundry for a very long time."
"Votive candles had been lit in her darkened room."
Chapter summaries (may contain plot and character teaser / "spoiler" information):
Chapter 23. TWO MOORS
Back at the Korean Laundromat, Brown eats while Milgrim contemplates the "twelfth-century heresy of the Free Spirit" when even Charles Manson would be disgusted by a culture where murder and rape were justified as "directly manifesting the Holy Spirit." As they leave the cleaners, Milgrim has "a nagging sensation of having failed to pay adequate attention to something." [372 characters]
The allusion to the Heresy of the Free Spirit as well as the references to the KGB and to the Voodoo / Santeria "deities" are potentially bleak and scary ideas.
It will be interesting to see if they cast a dismal gloom over the novel, or are just oblique references.
Chapter 24. POPPIES
In a box of bubble wrap that includes a Blue Ant vinyl figurine, Hollis discovers a black and silver "aggressively stylized version of the wireless helmet she’d used to view the squid at Bobby Chombo's." After turning it on, she views an in-room installation, an equiluminant background of Monet's Poppies [part of a series by the artist Afgenteuil] with a voiceover by Odile telling Hollis telling her "We must talk... about Chombo." [433 characters]