the journal full of comparative-class data

Day's arc glimpsed through the artifact meant to further it: the Recovery Journal turned into a field-notebook of class-anthropology and Lenz-quotations, the intellectual keeping notes on the other addicts instead of working the program with them. The book is precise about the evasion — a man documenting recovery as sociology, standing outside the thing at the exact remove the doctrine says will keep him from it, the too-clever resident using the Journal as one more place to hide.