Touched By An Alcoholic

For anyone who didn't already google the first sentence at the end of my previous post, it is from The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson. It is used in quotes at the beginning of that book because the main character is reading it in the narrative. The actual sentence is from James Joyce's Dubliners. I think this is great. Sometimes when we read something, a phrase, a sentence or a paragraph speaks to us in a poetic kind of way and we have to pause and mull it over, as the character in The Lost Weekend did. Sometimes we might write it down and save it for later, like a sweet piece of candy to sneak after dark. And in this case, Charles Jackson used it as a description of his character and how he related to that of another book. It's a neat way to link the two together without specifically calling attention to it. That's classy.