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Pat Montesian's drop-in transcripts — "I mean my God. Gately and…"

quote

I mean my God. Gately and Diehl had to pull the fork out of my hand and the tabletop both. To give you an idea. Of the savagery. […] I’m sitting there attached to the table by tines.

Context

Three voices from the drop-in-hours collage: the fork through the hand, Alfonso's terror at his own head, the coke-dissolved septum offered for inspection. The grotesque here is all acquired — addiction literally editing the body.

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