Right after
my note to myself, “Alcohol replaced self-discovery” in the last chapter, I ran
across my next blasé-blasé note to myself: “Addiction steals power” of no more
apparent critical importance at the time than “pick up laundry after work” or
“buy postage stamps”.
Sometimes I
must not listen to my own inner voice. “Addiction steals power”. I find my
childhood memory standing outside the house I spent my childhood in, watching
that aluminum disc circling around inside that glass protective globe, clicking
off the electric use for the meter reader’s next visit. It was like a watch, but
instead of measuring time, it was measuring power. Well, whatever power is,
that’s what addiction steals.
from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Chapter 21)
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