the addictive temperament, rerouted
Orin Incandenza, who like many children of raging alcoholics and OCD-sufferers had internal addictive-sexuality issues, had already drawn idle little sideways 8’s on the postcoital flanks of a dozen B.U. coeds.
Context
The inheritance surfacing not as a bottle but as a compulsion wearing sex's clothes: the son of the raging alcoholic carries "internal addictive-sexuality issues" as his native equipment, the appetite handed down intact and merely rechanneled. The disease runs on schedule through the family whether or not the substance changes.