W.A.S.T.E metaphor unfolds in life

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 2, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> So, Dave Monroe has a copy of Inherent Vice waiting for him in a  
>> secret place in a haunt he hasn't haunted as much.......remind  
>> anyone else of a W.A.S.T.E postal drop?
>
> Left anonymously, for the record ...

	"You hold meetings, then, like the AA?" "No, of course not. You get
	a phone number, an answering service you can call. Nobody
	knows anybody else's name; just the number in case it gets so bad
	you can't handle it alone. We're isolates, Arnold. Meetings would
	destroy the whole point of it."

	"What about the person who comes to sit with you? Suppose you
	fall in love with them?"

	"They go away," he said. "You never see them twice. The
	answering service dispatches them, and they're careful not to have
	any repeats."