the Valium-addict who smashed the illusion
a late-stage Valium-addicted Amway distributor from Schenectady who was at the end of her benzodioxane-rope and all over the road anyway
Context
The addict at the very bottom rendered as an accidental hero: a late-stage Valium case, already all over the road, who reads the oncoming headlights as Grace and floors it — and by not-veering exposes the A.F.R. mirror-trick the sober drivers kept swerving from. The end of her benzodioxane-rope makes her the only one with nothing left to lose, the private overdose-wish that "smashed the illusion."