Summary

The narrator boasted of his talents as a lawyer but admitted that “in court, I was afraid of everyone” (111). At the regularly-held “Rule Day” (112), Dinah teased the narrator while awaiting the judge’s appearance. While Dinah gave arguments, the narrator recalled a dissociative break, something that was “happening more and more” (115). Unable to remember how many pills he’d taken that morning, he began hallucinating, just as the judge called him to the podium. Watching a fly land near him, he squeezed it between his fingers and took the stand.

In Chapter 15, the narrator’s plan led him to the Musee du Nubia du Africq “also known as the Musee” (117). Riffing on the museum’s history, he referred to its collections as a “boneyard'' (117) containing “core samples of blackness” (118) from the pre-gentrified City. Waiting for Supercargo in the gift shop, he recognized a...