Endnote 211 — Pemulis's fear of expulsion

A character key: Pemulis's deepest dread is being expelled and forced back down into blue-collar Allston with no diploma, a fear now magnified in his final year — the reason for his elaborate caution in dealing, and the joke behind the poster Hal and Schacht gave him, a brooding king captioned "YES, I'M PARANOID—BUT AM I PARANOID ENOUGH?" (p. 1035).