Gately on Boston AA
Gately notices the guy's got a jailhouse tatt of AA's weird little insignia of a triangle inside a circle on one big shoulder.
Context
Gately's long free-indirect tour of Boston AA, and the recovery counter-thesis in two images a page apart: the fellowship's own logo is a triangle held inside a circle, and what AA actually offers isn't less pain but pain with a direction — versus the "repetitive gerbil-wheel" kind. The whole sobriety-vs-addiction question, restated as geometry: a line out, or another lap.