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The Enfield Marine units — "The E.M. cops call Unit #5…"

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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

Endnote 67 — the E.M. security cops regaling E.T.A.s over Blue Flames at The Unexamined Life. The bodies-warehoused thesis of scene 054 said out loud and given its names: not housed but stored, and the stored people are "objay darts" — objets d'art, damaged bodies literally reclassified as objects, in Boston phonetics the note has to transliterate.

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