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