Gately & Joelle: the leg-joke, accepted on faith
He said the point was an AA point, that it defied sense and explaining and you just had to accept it on faith.
Context
McDade's nonsense riddle — a counselor whose every leg was shorter than the other, who "walked like a metronome" — is a joke, and its content is a real Program point: you accept on faith the things that defy sense, and the absurd package is the delivery vehicle. Joelle "still thought it was funny" and got the point, which is the register move exactly: the sincere truth arrives wearing a joke, and receiving it requires the willingness to take the joke straight. This is the positive pole of the anthology's cliché-that-works — banality or absurdity as a Trojan horse for something load-bearing — and 112 will show its inverse, the same cleverness turned into a weapon that jams recovery instead of delivering it. (The AA faith-mechanics are addiction-recovery's, NOT built; landed here is the accept-on-faith register.)