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After twenty years of social drinking, Samuel G. Blythe begins to weigh familiar pleasures against the health troubles and deaths of friends. His account follows a personal decision to stop, with particular attention to the daily habits and friendships that make such a change difficult. Dinners, business contacts and convivial company all belong to the life he must reconsider.
The five chapters move through his reasons, his decision and his experience afterward. Blythe writes in a conversational voice, using sporting comparisons, jokes and arguments with himself to describe the pull of an established routine. He also examines the excuses people make when judging their own habits more kindly than those of their neighbors. Readers interested in personal accounts of changing behavior will find a frank discussion of resolve, social pressure and the difficulty of being honest with oneself.
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- Samuel G. Blythe
- Pages
- 19
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Memoir
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