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...testified to God's grace in the lives of Germans who had turned to the church: an alcoholic who kicked his habit, a prostitute and drug addict who reformed her ways and was baptized six weeks later, a 60-year-old woman who had taught the official atheism of East Germany but has now converted to the Christian faith...
...Captain Trash, Thomas Derrah amazes. Trash looks like a gum-chewing heroin addict, but in his escape from prison (the unbelievable number "Rat Seraban") and trip to Russia ("Russia's a big motha," he says), he proves he is more than just a whining yesman. "I think we should rip off their necks and piss down their throats," he suggests matter-of-factly. Derrah has never been more funny...
Counterpointing the Incandenza chronicle is the sorry saga of Don Gately, a former burglar and reformed drug addict who would rather suffer the agony of a gunshot wound than risk getting rehooked by pain killers. Ghosting through both densely detailed narratives is a group of legless Quebec separatists tasked with stealing Infinite Jest. They want to use its deadly amusing powers as a weapon. Filmmaker James Incandenza, was so entertained that he committed suicide by sticking his head in a hot-wired microwave oven...
...WENT TO WORK THIS MORNING. AS I dropped off my five-year-old son at school, I kissed him goodbye for the day and thanked God that I had a beautiful boy and a good job. I was a heroin and methadone addict for eight years, but I was smart enough not to have children back then. I figured that if I couldn't help myself, I had no right to bring a child into the world to include in my suffering. I'm 13 years clean. When I saw Elisa's face on your cover, I was horrified...
...Child Welfare Administration, which handles cases of abuse in New York City, first heard of Elisa on Feb. 11, 1989, the day of her birth. Her mother was a crack addict whose addiction was indirectly responsible for her pregnancy: she had lost her apartment, and in Brooklyn's Auburn Place homeless shelter she began a romance with Gustavo Izquierdo, who worked at the shelter as a cook. As her pregnancy progressed, Awilda was so lost in the pipe that relatives managed to wrest custody of her first two children, Rubencito and Kasey, from her. The social workers at Woodhull Hospital...