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Hal's confession walk: the Port Washington dose and the Visine-bottle economy

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Pemulis publicly dosed his opponent at Port Washington. It was impossible to miss. The kid was a devout Mormon. The dose was impossible to miss. Sales of Visine bottles of pre-adolescent urine during quarterly tests have been noted, it turns out, and classed as a Pemulis production.

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The underground economy that grows up around mandatory testing. Pemulis "publicly dosed his opponent at Port Washington" — a body sabotaged mid-competition — and runs a side trade in "Visine bottles of pre-adolescent urine" sold "during quarterly tests," clean young piss as a black-market commodity. Where the institution polices bodies by their fluids, a market in substitute fluids inevitably appears: the pre-adolescent bladder becomes a supplier, urine a good to be bottled and sold. The testing regime manufactures its own contraband anatomy.

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