Nine weeks clean: needlepoint and clichés versus Geoffrey Day

texture · ~7-9 Nov YDAU (I-Day weekend), ~0825-0832

• When: morning (the scene's clock cues run 0825-0832) during the long Interdependence Day weekend, early-to-mid Nov YDAU — exact day unfixed (see Dating notes).
• What: In the Ennet House living room, Charlotte sits needlepointing beside the six-days-in newcomer Geoffrey Day on the vinyl Goodwill couch while Day performs his contempt for recovery's clichés. She answers him cliché for cliché — telling him "You need to ask for some gratitude," pronouncing that denial is not a river in Egypt, half-singing "Easy does it" — and keeps looking over at Gately on the other couch for "Staff enforcement of dogma"; Day snubs her, insisting he wasn't speaking to her at all. Under the needling she is, in the narration's register, nine weeks clean and trying to look primmer and primmer.