their lives. Then the fiend was made welcome. Then his presence was customary. Then he became habitual. At last, the addiction and not the Christian was master. Consider how many neuroses flood into the lives of various addicts. Gilbert Grape’s mother allowed her gluttony to destroy her inside a house whose floor joists would barely support her. Upton Sinclair’s Cup of Fury deals with the addiction to alcohol, as does The Lost Weekend, or Ironweed, or any number of titles. Books and films and national