The recovery biography behind the Ennet House material — Somerville collapse, Harvard health services, McLean detox…
echoes
From: The Secret History of David Foster Wallace's Boston (BDCwire)
- Real-world: Via D.T. Max as quoted in the article: chaos at
35 Houghton Street, apartment 2 (Costello's testimony); the "No joy in
midville" letter announcing rehab on 11/2 for "liver problems"; "A stint
in Belmont’s McLean Hospital followed, after which he chose to live in a
halfway house in Brighton"; not allowed out alone for ten days, then
twenty more of meetings-only leave. [¶¶14-16]
- IJ echo: Ennet House's residency world and house rules (founding and
units: scenes 042, pp. 137-138, and 054, pp. 193-198); the staff-eye
texture of the Gately thread.
- Weight: biographical