Already a standing grievance: "the pathetic harassments of Minty and McDade"

texture · 4 Nov YDAU

• When: 4 Nov YDAU (the complaint's date; the harassments it cites are ongoing before it).
• What: In the steak-fork complaint to Pat — an unnamed resident, freshly fork-impaled through the hand and tabletop by "Nell" in mid-air over a table-tapping grievance — Minty appears as an already-established burden: "The pathetic harassments of Minty and McDade are bad enough," the speaker says, mid-argument that the House is failing its safe-and-nurturing charter. The clause establishes the Minty/McDade duo as a known quantity by early November, and that their typical target reads the harassment as bashing. (The transcript never names its speaker; the archive's Hanley inference is held loosely — see Dating notes.)