The Raquel Welch-mask speaker at White Flag
It’s about a goofily simple practical recipe for how to remember you’ve got the Disease day by day and how to treat the Disease day by day, how to keep the seductive ghost of a bliss long absconded from baiting you and hooking you and pulling you back Out and eating your heart raw and (if you’re lucky) eliminating your map for good.
Context
The narration's verdict on the skinny Advanced Basics girl's etiology monologue: Boston AA boycotts the Why of the Disease, because In Here is not about causes. The kicker is the parenthesis — "(if you're lucky)" — map-elimination graded as the fortunate outcome of going back Out, against the undead alternative of not getting to die. The suicide idiom sitting at the center of the axiom that anchors the whole AA section. (The scene's only other theme note is lexeme-free: the girl IV-injects her way to scene 074's standard two-option cliff-edge, now citable as standard.)