Profile: Preludin-happy, cigarette-brave, lazy but very bright

texture · STANDING

• When: STANDING profile across the YDAU term.
• What: Boone's standing portrait is appetite plus nerve plus unadvertised brains. She is charter inner-ring in Hal's drug-knowledge — of the "colleagues Michael Pemulis, Jim Struck, Bridget C. Boone, Jim Troeltsch, Ted Schacht, Trevor Axford" who know he gets regularly covertly high, she is also among those "known to get high also." Her stimulant habits are bolder than the boys': "unlike Jim Troeltsch or the Preludin-happy Bridget Boone, Michael Pemulis (out of maybe some queer sort of blue-collar street-type honor) rarely ingests any 'drines before a match." She smokes in the teeth of the conditioning — "Because smoking will simply kill you during drills, only Bridget Boone, a steroidic Girls' 16 named Carol Spodek, and one or the other of the Vaught twins are masochistic enough to do it." And the narration's one academic verdict on her doubles as the key to her big scene: "a lazy student but very bright girl."