Ennet House facts and Ewell's tattoos
Tiny Ewell’ll put this same abstract but not very profound idea in a whole number of varied ways, over and over, obsessively almost, and still fail to get any of the tattooed residents interested, although Bruce Green will listen politely, and the clinically depressed Kate Gompert usually won’t have the juice to get up and walk away when Tiny starts in, which makes Ewell seek her out vis-à-vis tattoos, though she hasn’t got a tattoo.
Context
The first Ennet-House-daily-life sighting of Kate after the ward: clinical depression rendered as pure energy deficit. She isn't listening, she just hasn't "the juice" to escape a bore — which makes her the tattoo-less center of Ewell's tattoo audience. The comedy is doing diagnostic work.