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Gately and Joelle on the veil and U.H.I.D.

quote

the keep grabbed him and covered him with the bar piece and called the Finest and kept the guy back behind the bar, I think mostly now to keep us from eliminating his map right there, out of payback.

Context

From Gately's worst-thing-I-saw-drunk story: the map idiom in its homicide register rather than its suicide one — texture for the idiom's spread, the way "eliminate the map" is the book's all-purpose grammar for erasing a person.

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