endnote n.67: the Shed's objay darts
There’s something a little compulsive about the cops’ particular interest in #5 chronic catatonics, especially. The E.M. cops call Unit #5 ‘The Shed,’ they say, because its residents don’t seem housed there so much as more like stored there. The E.M. cops pronounce stored ‘stew-wad.’ The chronic catatonics themselves they refer to as ‘objay darts,’ which is something else Don G. over in #6 has never understood.
Context
The Enfield Marine cops on the specimens they guard, companion to scene 054's tour: Unit #5's chronic catatonics get the theme's terminal-state vocabulary — not housed but "stored," persons become "objay darts" (objets d'art), depression's far shore where the self has been fully converted into furniture.