In the blackness of space, he pilots of the Pan Am spaceship dock (or penetrate with) the phallic craft - through the aid of graphic read-out screens that must constantly be monitored - in the spoke-hub of the gigantic, circular, revolving space station [a symbol of an egg] - almost like a copulatory act.After Marion serves a dessert of ample slices of apple pie, Joe comments on the fanciness of supper: "Say, we""re kinda fancy, aren""t we?.Apparently, it refers in part to the directionless, surrealistic search of the befuddled hero/common man around the country for a fictional character.[There""s a very subtle connection signaled here: he main protagonist in J.D.Salinger""s novel Holden Caulfield, is an alienated and haunted teen, similar to Jack Torrance as an adult.