the dread-litany: naming Withdrawal

The theme's anchor invocation of the thing itself. Withdrawal is capitalized into a proper noun and given a litany of folk-names — the Wingless Fowl, Turkeyfication, the Old Cold Bird — each a euphemism the street uses to hold the horror at arm's length, and the "sinister-footsteps-echoing-in-deserted-corridor" image establishes the controlling metaphor the whole scene will inhabit: Withdrawal as a lightless corridor you are forced to walk to the end of. Poor Tony has never once had to do this in the decades since he "first got strung at seventeen," because his charms always bought him out; the litany marks the moment the exits close.