Hal's marijuana use has become a daily physiological dependence

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pivotal · YDAU, by 3 Nov

When: YDAU (2009) "these days this year"
What: State-change reveal: "Hal usually gets secretly high so regularly these days this year that if by dinnertime he hasn't gotten high yet that day his mouth begins to fill with spit" (rebound from Bob Hope's desiccating action) and his eyes water; the smokeless tobacco (Kodiak) "started almost as an excuse to spit." Not-getting-high by dinner also nauseates him; afterward he gets ravenous and eats "like such a feral animal" at late dinners with C.T. and the Moms (Avril finds it maternally gratifying). Marks the habit's escalation into a body-clocked daily dependence — the substrate for the later withdrawal.