How The Inferno Describes Hallucinatory Drug Addicts:
“the way these two applied their nails and
dug and dug into their flesh, crazy to ease the itching that can never find
relief. they worked their nails down, scraping off the scabs the way one works
a knife scale a bream or some other fish with larger, tougher scales”
(337-338).
I know what you're thinking. And I agree. What the fuck is a bream?
Right?
But anyway, this reminds me of the Downtown Eastside. If anyone has had the
good fortune to see addicts harming themselves, with no inclination whatsoever
toward self harm, they will understand why this haunting description is almost
a prophecy of our dark secret of beautiful touristy Vancouver.
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