the tribunal endnote: the testing regime as a closed trap

The machinery is arranged so the truth is suicide. Pemulis can't clear himself — the dosing was Troeltsch's accident — without admitting to possessing a 'drine, which "given the shaky pharmaceutical ground since the Eschaton and O.N.A.N.T.A. urologist would be tantamount to Clippertonizing himself" (cf. 086): self-elimination for keeps. The urine-testing governance doesn't just police bodies; it forecloses defense, making the only exculpatory move a public destruction of the self.