I'm probably [definitely] missing something obvious here, but for the life of me I can't figure out who the character giving his AA speech is on the pages above [he self-identifies as "Mikey, alcoholic and addict and a sick fuck."]
My original idea was that this was a Pemulis, either the father or a son, but then I remembered that the father was dead and spoke with a heavy accent. Then I thought maybe it was Michael Pemulis pulling some sort of weird and elaborate joke in light of his traumatic recent expulsion [about which I have some questions, namely that I can't find any closure about it], but that didn't seem to make any sense.
Anyone? I first read this at 2:00-3:00 A.M. on a red-eye plane, on a first-time-reading no less, and that was a few weeks ago, so the whole affair is fraught with peril.
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