Why does he behave like this?

[Graystone]

. . . If hundreds of experiences have shown him that one drink means another debacle with all its attendant suffering and humiliation, why is it he takes that one drink? . . .

There is a sentence in the August 16 reading in the Twenty-Four Hours A Day Book that describes me.
"Will power and self-knowledge will never help in the strange mental blank spots when we are tempted to drink"

[Dallas]

I understand.

That's why I kind of chuckle when I hear someone say:
"Play the tape through!"

I have blank spots on my tape.

If I rely on "playing the tape through"... it just might land on one of the blank spots!

Dallas