Day's bottom: the Saab through the window
A red-wine-and-Quaalude man who finally nodded out in late October and put his Saab through the window of a Malden sporting goods store and then got out and proceeded to browse until the Finest came and got him.
Context
A compact bottom-narrative in one sentence: the specific substances (red wine and Quaaludes), the blackout terminus (nodding out at the wheel), the property-crime consequence, and the deranged coda — browsing the wrecked store until arrested — that marks how far the Disease has taken his relation to reality. The detail that he denies the detox ever happened and now claims he "just strolled into Ennet House on a lark" is the intact denial the House will spend the book trying to crack.