I loved the whole "selected transcripts of the resident interface drop-in hours" section and found the transcript of the lawyer's rhetorical refusal to deny or affirm his alcoholism for lack of a sufficiently fleshed out definition absolutely hysterical: "Im not denying anything. I'm symply asking you to define "alcoholic." How can you ask me to attribute to myself a given term if you refuse to define the term's meaning?...Am I having pancreas problems? Yes. Do I have trouble recalling certain intervals in the Kemp and Limbaugh administration? No contest. Is there a spot of domestic turbulence surrounding my intake? Why yes there is. Did I experience yes some formication in detox? I did...But what is this you demand I admit? Is it denial to delay signature until the vocabulary of the contract is clear to all parties so bound? Yes, yes, you don't follow what I mean here, good! And you're reluctant to proceed without clarification. I rest. I cannot deny waht I don't understand. This is my position" (177).

This passage was particularly interesting in light of one of the "exotic new facts" about drug use and recovery from later on, namely, "that it is stastically easier to low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people" (203). Another exotic fact that resonated for me was that "most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking," which seemed intimately related to the previous fact. High-IQ people can mean any number of things, but intelligent people tend, in my experience, to be both cerebral and discontent, sort of constantly pissed off, to greater or lesser degrees, with the world at large. The lawyer from above is obviously smart, but that matters not at all when it comes to kicking his habit. In fact, his ability to dodge admitting his alcoholism through sheer sophistry seems to be a crippling impediment to his recovery process. Did this hit home for anyone else? Oh and we can't forget: "It is simply more pleasant to be happy than to be pissed off" (203). God that's difficult prescription to actually internalize. But so true.