the small manageable bits that helped her see
usually felt on the small manageable bits of coke that helped her see deeper, harder, and so maybe not even objectively accessible in the Work itself
Context
The functional early face of the habit, before it was a habit: cocaine as a tool of attention, the "small manageable bits" that let her study the frames harder — with the quiet self-undercut that what the drug let her see may not have been there at all. The love-affair begins as usefulness, the substance folded into the work it will eventually replace.