Ennet House: the PUSSY-armed old man's dignity
there’s a deep and tremendously compelling dignity about the old man’s demeanor w/an online forum the PUSSY on his arm, and Ewell actually considers approaching this fellow re the issue of sponsorship
Context
Against all of Ewell's taxonomizing stands the old BLTN veteran wearing a single hateful faded word "as if the word simply wasn't there, or was so irrevocably there there was no point even thinking about it." The dignity is unironic to the bone — no stoic-pride pose, no display, just a man who has stopped negotiating with his own past. And it is exactly this, not any of the categories, that makes Ewell think of asking him for sponsorship: the sincere thing, met plainly, pulls the ironist toward asking for help. It's 066's dynamic pre-figured in one image — educated cataloguing circling a plainness it can't file and secretly wants.