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Pat Montesian's drop-in transcripts — "I don’t have a septum no…"

quote

I don’t have a septum no more. My septum’s been like fucking dissolved by coke. See? You see anything like a septum when I lift up like that?

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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