A yellow light on brown carpet that keeps returning.
The carpetch. 7, 8, 14
“There is a soft yellow glow from the closet” (7). “Beneath soft, sick-hued yellows out from lamp shade reminders across brown carpet” (8). The Hermit dies “in the corner of a small room on brown carpet, yellow-hued familiarly, like a million times in a million times familiar” (14).
The hallwaych. 20, 25, 27, 28
Samson sees “a hallway, yellow, with brown carpet” in his cracked visor (20). Lucifer's voice comes “down a narrow hallway, yellow with forgotten memories” (25). Blows beat “across a yellow lit hallway” (27). “The darkness broken by the yellow from the hall” (28).
In the outer darknessch. 23
Satan's room: “the bright yellow and the brown walls of a room vast,” brown carpet fibers, “a lampshade-yellow with brown carpet.”
The trailerch. 42
Damon finds “the hue of the yellow bathroom light terrifyingly familiar,” beside brown wallpaper that imitates wood grain.