When Jacob picks up that phone in the cave , he is propelled (we join his personal point of view, seeing directly through his yeux , or at least picking up a momentary rectangular cross-section of his deep-space picture-brain) back to the voiture that flattened the dunes, first seen when he danced with the abeille and visited the Garden of paradis in the Space Shuttle.
Ma rêverie fut interrompue par une sonnerie de téléphone dans la caverne.