Giving Up Smoking Part IV: When is a Cigarette Not a Cigarette or I Wish Paddy Chayefsky Was Still Around

Jesus Christ rose again from the dead; Neil Diamond, Tom Jones, the Eagles and the Marie Celeste all came back – but the Marie Celeste came back without her crew… Okay bad example. Let’s move on, the point for me was, Could I come back from mental oblivion? Being incapable of thought wasn’t all that bad. It gave me a warm sense of brotherhood with a large, hitherto alienated section of humanity. But I knew it also had its downside even if I couldn’t pin down precisely what that was and wouldn’t have been capable of expressing it in words. . . . → Read More: Giving Up Smoking Part IV: When is a Cigarette Not a Cigarette or I Wish Paddy Chayefsky Was Still Around