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time to go back to detox again — "The Stork and the couple critics…"

quote

The Stork and the couple critics would lay up drunk and invent new Found-Drama theoretical lectures and chortle and laugh till there was evidence it was time for Himself to go back to detox again.

Context

The drinking as the metronome of JOI's late working life, in Orin's telling: a private reserved room at McLean's by then, and the Found-Drama hoax cooked up over benders that ran "till there was evidence it was time for Himself to go back to detox again." The revolving door timed to the binges, the detox as the recurring punctuation of the work.

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