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Joelle's last walk

quote

Boston Common is like a lush hole Boston's built itself around, a two-k. square of shiny trees and dripping limbs and green benches over wet grass.

Context

Early in the death-day walk: the city itself as an annulus — a ring of Boston built around a green void. Two paragraphs later the freebase gets described as what "no longer delimits and fills the hole." City, drug, self: rings around holes, all the way down.

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