Establishing portrait: the 27-year-old oral-narcotics addict and professional burglar

texture · Autumn YDPAH

• When: Autumn YDPAH (2008)
• What: The establishing portrait: Don Gately is a twenty-seven-year-old oral narcotics addict (favoring Demerol and Talwin) and a "more or less professional burglar," the size of a young dinosaur with a massive almost perfectly square head (friends open and close elevator doors on it when he's drunk); at his professional zenith smart, sneaky, quiet, quick, with a "ferocious jolliness" toward his livelihood.