Ennet House facts and Ewell's tattoo taxonomy (p. 207)
What’s sad about the gorgeous violet arrow-pierced heart with PAMELA incised in a circle around it on Randy Lenz’s right hip is that Lenz has no memory either of the tattoo-impulse and -procedure or of anybody named Pamela.
Context
Inside Tiny Ewell's detox-obsessive tattoo taxonomy: a permanent, incised document of a decision — and a person — that the mind has since wholly lost. The ink as a fossil record of blackout choices; Lenz walks around carrying an archive he can't read.