The supper-table teeth lecture: showing Joelle his corroded stumps

texture · ~8-10 Nov YDAU (reported 14 Nov)

• When: at an Ennet House supper in the ~6-11 Nov window, most plausibly ~8-10 Nov; narrated 14 Nov in Joelle's tooth-obsession scene.
• What: At supper, Foss explains to Joelle exactly how smoking freebase cocaine eats, corrodes, and directly attacks tooth enamel — "showing her his corroded stumps" as the demonstration. The lecture takes: Joelle starts carrying a traveller's brush and expensive enamel-revitalizing toothpaste in her purse and spirals into obsessive worry, and "the sight of Wade McDade's or Chandler Foss's teeth gave Joelle the fantods like nothing at meetings could." His defining physical marker given its etiology in his own voice — candid, unembarrassed, pedagogically useful to a fellow pipe addict.