Kate and Ruth trek up Prospect St.
Ruth van Cleve in spike heels walking alongside a psychotically depressed Kate Gompert on Prospect just south of Inman Square, Cambridge, a little after 2200h., yammering nonstop. […] Kate Gompert hasn’t slept in four nights, and her slumped progress up the Prospect sidewalk resembles the lazy tack of a boat in no rush.
Context
14 November, 2200h.: the essay put immediately on legs. The narration names Kate "psychotically depressed" in flat free indirect, the four sleepless nights are her secret-marijuana Withdrawal clock running, and Ruth talks nonstop into the ear of a woman incapable of Identifying with any living thing.