(Vatchi): [continuing...] Other people's consciousness is such a strange thing to watch, Sotto. And I'm here watching you watch him.
My job's easier.
Relax. We're only halfway through Act One.
And now, change has surely come as I have moved to another Atlantic City location across the street from another vacant tract of land (no, not my mind!), a site formerly Playboy Casino, then Trump's World Fair Casino and now a rectangular goose egg.
Looking out over this empty tract of land, I see the emptiness that was me, drunk but empty, when I did advertising work for Playboy. I vividly remember the alcoholic haze which prevented me from meeting with Joanne, the director of advertising, except in the late afternoon. The bigger the account, the later in the day I would schedule that appointment, because I knew I reeked less of alcohol as the day progressed.
from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Day 15)
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