a Program of Attraction

The single coldest line in the scene: Lenz baiting cats with tuna recalls the AA principle that the fellowship works by attraction rather than promotion, and turns the slogan into a literal lure. The doctrine he sits through nightly has been fully metabolized and fully inverted — attraction as the mechanics of the kill — which is exactly how a mind in unmanaged early sobriety can wear the whole apparatus of recovery while its actual disease operates untouched underneath.