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Endnote 334 — Hal's private joke for staying clean

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Read as a scene

This endnote is long enough to stand as a scene in its own right: Scene n321: hal pemulis dmz quitting.

Identifies Hal's Pemulis-inspired phrase for going without his "secret daily Bob H." (p. 1076) — his hidden marijuana habit. What began as a wry dark joke has, within a week, become how Hal frames his abstinence to himself, a self-pitying framing any Boston AA would warn him against.