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The failed-recovery endpoint: Lenz ejected, fully relapsed, and finally an A.F.R. Entertainment test-subject

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texture · ~early Nov-19 Nov YDAU

  • When: ejection already past by 14 Nov ("who knows how many days or weeks ago"); relapsed on the street 14 Nov; in A.F.R. hands by 19 Nov
  • What: The terminal arc of the thread's counterexample (event 17) — what non-surrender costs, played to its end. Ejected from Ennet House — "invited to ingest Substances and abuse animals elsewhere" — Lenz is next seen fully relapsed: homeless and disguised in Little Lisbon, snorting cocaine, preying on passersby (the Chinese-women robbery). By 19 Nov the loop closes: the A.F.R. have acquired him (the identification is the scene record's; the raw names neither Subject) — "an eccentrically dressed and extremely irritating without-home man of the streets in a white wig," toting bags of foreign cookware and ladies' undergarments — as a viewer-willingness test-subject for the Master Entertainment, alongside the post-seizure Poor Tony (event 6): the thread's two unrecovered figures converging on the fatal amusement. Expulsion, relapse, disposal — the counter-arc to every surrender the spine records. See the Ennet thread (the House ejection is its plot), the A.F.R. / U.S.O.U.S. threads (the test-subject apparatus and the Entertainment).