the men who won't come out for insulin — "Marathe reported they had declined to…"
Marathe reported they had declined to come out for water or food, or Joubet—who was diabétique—for his insulin.
Context
The cage stripped to its pure mechanism: two men locked in with the thing they want, refusing food, water, and a diabetic's insulin, their only utterance a cry of impatience at the rewinder. It is the shape of every terminal habit — the object crowds out survival itself, and the last articulate sound the addicted make is the demand to run it back one more time.