the counsel channel that transmits nothing — "the screen's got block-capitaled METHOXYLATED BASES…"

The Big Buddy powwow exists to route support and counsel from an older student down to the small ones, and Pemulis fills the channel with a chemistry lecture pitched entirely past his audience, indifferent to whether a word lands. The result is a forum for connection producing zero contact: a wall of expertise, a screenful of Greek, and a floor of glassy-eyed ten-year-olds probing their navels and pretending to topple over. The monologist broadcasts; nothing is received. Landed here on the failed-channel mechanics; the drug-pedagogy is addiction-recovery's. [sweep · shared-ground addiction-recovery]