the manufactured impression as procurement tool
The appropriation artist had been led to believe that he was a former speed addict, intravenous addiction to methamphetamine hydrochloride is what he remembered telling that one, he had even described the awful taste of hydrochloride in the addict’s mouth immediately after injection, he had researched the subject carefully.
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Procurement as long-form deception: the prior supplier was cultivated with a researched cover story — recovering IV-speed addict, marijuana as the lesser evil holding the darker drug at bay — so that fetching him dope felt to her like rescue. And the fine moral distinction he preserves, that he never lied but only conveyed and nurtured an impression until it took on its own life, is the addict's characteristic accounting: technically honest, functionally a fabrication built to move product.