BEER Group Read. "introduced as 'friends'"

[John Bailey]

Yeah, expecting friends to be willing and able to do the same job as
any variety of therapist/shrink/etc is like expecting them to unclog
your blocked up toilet pipes.

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> NYC isn't a pleasant place if you're lonely or neurotic. This place was made for shrinks
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> What friend could ever give it straight. Love and all sorts of shit get in the way.
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>> On Oct 13, 2013, at 9:46 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> I used to ask some of my NYC friends who went to the psych doctors every week,
>> what they provided that a friend who listened did not?
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>> Pynchon has Dr. Kugelblitz call his patients his 'friends'.
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>> P showing the debasement of the meaning of friend?
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