Status Updates From Junky

“the american upper-middle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. he is largely delineated by what he is not. gains went further. he was not mere negative. he was positively invisible; a vagud respectable presence. there is a certain kind of ghost that can only materialize with the aid of a sheet or other piece of cloth to give it outline. gaines was like that. he materialized in someone else’s overcoat.”

“morphine hits the back of the legs first, then the back of the neck, a spreading wave of relaxation slackening the muscles away from the bones so that you seem to float without outlines, like lying in warm salt water.”

@jake elliott finally reading it 🙏