Fat Curt - The Corner

We are introduced affectionately to Fat Curt at the beginning of The Corner: A Year in the life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood "His fattened, needle-scarred hands will never again see the bottom of a trouser pocket; his forearms are swollen leather; his bloated legs mass up from the concrete. But then obese limbs converge on a withered torso: At the heart of the man, Fat Curt is fat no more." We learn in the epilogue that after attempts at sobriety, Curt collapsed for the last time and died of liver failure on 9 June 1997.