seattle calls from seattle , the telephone conversation ends on a refusal to return to new haven , live with tusk in his airshaft room that he has drawn through housing division machinations , a continually high-on-marijuana basketball scholar from los angeles who takes more than his share of the place , but is too drugged up and high to comprehend seattles excited cries that tusk is being disingenuous , that he shouldnt be openly accepted for how he presents himself .