Ken Erdedy
“college boy ad exec” — notorischer Kiffer, der ständig mit dem Kiffen aufhören will und sich dadurch in immer neue Lügengeschichten verstrickt.
The woman who said she’d come
- w/ 1/5 kg high-quality M.J.
- tried to quit 70-80 times
- (elaborate ritual)
- just starts over and over
- each time he tells himself it’s the last time
- constructs increasingly elaborate systems of self-deception
- pp. 23 1st footnote (“crystal meth”)
- pp. 25 1st E.W.D. land barge
At Ennet House
- arrives as a resident
- his addiction pattern: the cycle of quitting, the ritual of “one last time”, the lies he tells himself and others
- connected to Kate Gompert — both struggle with the gap between wanting to stop and being unable to