(Surimi): Guys, inescapable charm is definitely not Jim’s problem. But I think he's finally beginning to realize the big difference between being drunk and sober. Water lifts all boats, but apparently not the same can be said for alcohol.
His extremes, his drunken fire and ice. Sobriety, and all that comes with it is more balanced, more centered and less extreme than his active addiction was.
His cadence and his rhythm are now more clearly a reflection of his life. Addiction is chaos. Sobriety will eventually have a calming effect on almost anyone.
I drank myself sober sometimes. My mind would seek to find some equilibrium. Despite my drunkenness, my mind stood at cross purposes with my substance of abuse. I couldn't have known that then, or at least I didn't know that. Did not know that.
In the most strange of strangest ways, I finally (and finally) drank myself sober.
And that is that is that.
from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Chapter 64)
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