Summary

While Claude is planting items in John’s car, Trudy grabs John’s hands and tells him that the separation is partially her fault. John recites a poem and reassures her that she will not have to deal with any more poems while she is with Claude. Claude returns and offers John the smoothie. He is initially hesitant, but after a conversation about migrants, and how after 5,000 years, race will no longer be a concept, he drinks the smoothie after a toast. The narrator comments that it is a toast for Eros and Thanatos. Claude gives John his forgotten hat and John leaves to try and start his car.

The narrator informs the reader that Claude planted the antifreeze bottle, a smoothie cup, a receipt, a bank statement with the word “enough” written on it, and John’s gloves. The narrator theorizes that...