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The Dilaudid binge — "In his stuporous recall over four…"

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In his stuporous recall over four years later in St. E.'s he realizes that this bus is the bus from the dream that wouldn't end and wouldn't go anywhere, but has the sickening realization that the connection between the two buses is itself a dream, or is in a dream […]

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Feverish Gately in the hospital, remembering the binge: a dream nested in the memory of a dream, with the connection between them also dreamed. Recursion proper — the regress with no floor, and his monitor spikes as he falls down it.

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