Pre-fundraiser locker room: acupressure for a headache

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texture · 20 Nov YDAU

When: 20 November YDAU, immediately before the fundraiser-exhibition fête against the Québec junior squads
What: In the ritualized, autopilot pre-competition locker room — Wayne hooded in his towel running a coin over his knuckles, Troeltsch broadcasting his own match in advance, Québec-team and weather rumors circulating and shifting antigens — Shaw sits pinching the web of flesh between his thumb and first finger, acupressure for a headache. The book's last image of him: silent, ranked, self-administering.