Notkin's guilt-theory of Joelle's addiction; "self-erasure"; Avril as Death incarnate

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• When: UNDATED (Joelle's habit c. YTSDB-YDAU; the views ongoing)
• What: Notkin theorizes Joelle's secret freebase habit as guilt-driven self-punishment: her sobriety condition had removed the alcohol that (in Joelle's "deluded hindsight") was all that kept JOI's tether ravelled — his death being what he and Joelle had privately called "self-erasure." Also per Notkin: Joelle thought the widow "very possibly Death incarnate" and found it bizarre that JOI kept casting her as Death "when he had the real thing right under his nose."