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What became of the figure — named "Emil," "dematerialized from the street-scene," still hunting Poor Tony

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texture · 14 Nov YDAU (~11 months later), cross-stratum

  • When: 14 Nov YDAU, in Poor Tony's seizure scene — back-referencing the scene-040 events as "last winter" / "last Xmas"
  • What: The only later textual sighting of the yrstruly figure comes from OUTSIDE his own narration, in Poor Tony's point of view. Scene 069 names him "Emil," reports that after the Wo/Bobby-C Christmas he "simply dematerialized from the street-scene," and that he "still had [Poor Tony] marked for de-mapping" over "that horrid thing with Wo and Bobby C last winter" — so that Poor Tony has not dared show a feather at any of the crew's old turf since. Poor Tony's seizure-visions replay the death: "Bobby ('C') C's blood misting upward in the hot wind of the Copley blower." This is the textual bridge from the unnamed narrator to the name "Emil" (and from "C" to "Bobby C") — see Dating notes for the further, un-asserted Emil-Minty identification.