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Hey fellow Anons.

So I am coming up on one year of sobriety, and at my local AA group I am having a one year medallion ceremony. During the meeting I get to choose people to read a piece of prose or poem of my choosing. I was thinking about using a passage from Infinite Jest because it is what planted the seed for my sobriety. Was going to use “... That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.”

If you guys have any other suggesting that would be great:)

>> No.8607924

nice choice

>> No.8607930

>>8607898
good choice

>> No.8607931

Sounds good to me anon, especially since you have a personal connection to it.

>> No.8607940

Read Ablutions, by Patrick Dewitt. And pass it around. It's a small book. Weird and rough and funny.

What people need first is a mirror.

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8607950

Wardine be cough

>> No.8607952

>>8607898
all i can say is that infinite jest is a gold mine for AA meeting passage readings. you should have no trouble finding like ten or eleven passages thatll do.

>> No.8607966 [DELETED] 

>>8607950
o shit I thought it was a tobacco meet
major meme failure here

>> No.8607979

>>8607940
Thanks buddy checking this out right now

>> No.8607981 [DELETED] 

>>8607966
ok ok I got another one hang on

>> No.8607986

faggot

>> No.8607989
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8607989

Liver be cry

>> No.8608151

>>8607898
In the last season of The Wire, Bubs makes a very nice speech for his x months of abstinence.

>> No.8608230

>>8608151
I love that scene, he finally gets up and talks about the kid he was with. "Was walking through the park and I tired calling people but no one picked up" (black girl yells i would have picked up) "but i didnt get high". Makes me cry everytime.

>> No.8608256

>>8608151
nah it's pretty pleb

his final send off is better than that whole scene

>> No.8608298

>>8607898

Read one of Don's chapters from around 300-400 or so pages in. Where I think he goes on about the initiation process for newcomers.

>> No.8608304

>>8608298

Or maybe one where Don talks about his father's addiction to MASH