The pipeline!!!!! (pt 1)
They told me, after the visit, that he was a sportsman in his youth. They told me that he golfed like a champ, a proper champ. Where did it go wrong, then? They told me on his 18th, he had a swig of beer. They told me he couldn't stop drinking since. When we saw him, he sat there behind a glass window. He was handcuffed. He had been arrested for hurling verbal abuse at the staff of a bottle shop. He had been drunk. He sat there, handcuffed. He posed no harm to himself, he posed no harm to us. But still, he sat there in handcuffs, telling us how he got there in the first place. The psychiatrist asked him if he saw things. He said yes - he saw the devil, and the devil would harangue him for drinking. He heard voices - those of the devil - berating him for drinking. He drank, and he saw and heard, and he drank, and he saw and heard. And he drank. He swore off drinking in that cell. He'd go back to drinking the moment he...