the whole point is the next refill
He would fence the nonnegotiable valuables in Little Lisbon and refill the receptacle in his medical dictionary, and buy some attractiver shoes.
Context
The night's economics closed in one sentence: the snatch, the flight, the bags — all of it resolves into fencing the goods and refilling the hollowed dictionary's cavity, the crime's entire purpose the next load in the next book. The receptacle he wouldn't think about directly a few blocks and one robbery ago is already spoken for; the loop's only product is its own continuation.