It’s a fairly common saying among sober alcoholics that the reason they finally quit drinking was that, by the end, they were getting sicker faster than they could lower their standards.
Annie’s piece recalls a scene that runs through Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, slowly revealed. One character tries to help a wounded comrade and realizes, in an utterly harrowing moment, that things are much worse than they seem. (If you’ve read the book, you will remember the scene.)
[T]here were so many revelations and so much brilliant writing this weekend, that you could’t help but think that this nation is just beginning to notice the [first evidence that things are much worse than they seem.]
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