Cumulative Effect

(Surimi): Jim's body built up a tolerance for alcohol (not to mention his mind, his heart, his soul). It would take more and more alcohol to achieve the same effect. Except it never really was the same effect as his tolerance increased. It had "cunning, baffling and powerful" similarities to the "same" effect, but the cumulative effect was another story.


    Only slowly did he learn that as he began to look more and more like an alcoholic to observers he did not feel the difference he wanted on the inside. "More" trumped effect and in a very long blink, he was consumed by his disease.

    Now, Sotto and Vatchi, your understanding of him will change as he changes. The metamorphosis of change and the metamorphosis of the understanding of change.

from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Day 17)