NA, hugs, Roy Tony (p. 503)
The chairs were arranged in NA's traditional huge circle, with no tables to sit at and everybody balancing ashtrays on their knees and accidentally kicking over their cups of coffee.
Context
Johnette Foltz has brought Erdedy and Gompert to a marijuana-focused NA Beginners' Meeting, and recovery's furniture is a ring: the traditional huge circle of chairs. The institutional answer to the addiction loop is — another circle, but one you sit in facing each other.