The White Flag AA meeting (ii)
you sit there on what’s left of your furniture in the lavender dawnlight and realize that by now you literally have no other choices besides trying this AA thing or else eliminating your map
Context
The morning after the two earnest weirdly calm guys leave: the second-person addict, on what's left of the furniture, seeing the fork from inside. Third statement of the axiom in two pages, and the tightest — AA or map-elimination, nothing else on the menu — right before the last farewell binge and the first meeting.