Lenz kills the Nuck dog (p. 578)
The searing facts of the case of Bruce Green’s natural parents’ deaths when he was a toddler are so deeply repressed inside Green that whole strata and substrata of silence and mute dumb animal suffering will have to be strip-mined up and dealt with a Day at a Time in sobriety for Green even to remember how, on his fifth Xmas Eve, in Waltham MA, his Pop had taken the hydrant-sized little Brucie Green aside and given him, to give his beloved Mama for Xmas, a gaily Gauguin-colored can of Polynesian Mauna Loa-brand macadamia nuts
Context
The repression machinery and its scheduled AA reversal in one sentence: the past isn't gone, it's strata, and sobriety's Day at a Time is named outright as the strip-mining rig that will someday bring it up — the 092 mechanism stated prospectively about a man still two thoughts a minute from any of it. (An inline [n.240] anchor removed per the apparatus convention.)