The Paradox of Substance Addiction

Wallace's level of critical thinking is so far above what normal people, you know, just think about the way that he thinks. He takes this totally plotless, like boring banal experience and turns it into this really amazing piece of art. The paradox of substance addiction is that once you are sufficiently enslaved by a substance to need to quit the substance in order to save your life,. You will all but lose your mind when it is taken away from you.