And the nice part is, whatever he's telling them, they know he isn't lying!
By the way, a "wet house" is a hostel for the homeless that permits its alcoholic residents to drink on the premises. There was a documentary made about one in 2002 for BBC 4, and you can watch it online here. They're not a popular concept, especially with the kind of people who consider any attempt to ease or relieve the squalor and suffering of chemical dependency explicit societal approval of it. But they prevent emergency room trips, arrests, and beatings/murders. Help to attain sobriety is offered, but not insisted on. It's pretty pragmatic, all things considered.
There are a few in the US, but not many. Understandably, they like to stay under the radar.
PS: had to post this. It's almost over! I've seen the light at the end of the tunnel!
They... they're looking for the Elliotts, aren't they ?
Oh, of course they are! They're not here for Sunny and Mose at all! I'd actually forgotten about the Elliots, until I bought book 2. Good catch, Wood.
We've got a publicly-funded wet house here in Seattle -- free downtown studio apartments and medical care for 75 former street drunks. It's cheaper than shuttling them between the emergency room and jail until they die, by about $2.5 mil/year, but those 75 people still cost us $3 mil/year in social services, plus another $1 mil/year for the wet house itself. It's a pickle.
'They're not a popular concept, especially with the kind of people who consider any attempt to ease or relieve the squalor and suffering of chemical dependency explicit societal approval of it.'
What do you mean by that? What kind of people?
Oh my goodness, thank you so much for posting that sticker. I voted two weeks ago, because I'm a poll worker in a different district, and I got so freakin' tired of people bugging me about voting.
"What do you mean by that? What kind of people?"
The kind of people who consider any attempt to ease or relieve the squalor and suffering of chemical dependency explicit societal approval of it, obviously. To them, the concept of a wethouse is especially unpopular. Due to their above-mentioned consideration.
There are probably also folk who think that a wethouse is enabling the condition instead of fighting it. And probably a few who think that drinking is always bad, in any scenario. Y'know.
It's like Rule 34-A. If you can forumlate an opinion in words, somebody - somewhere - has that opinion.
..... I gotta go reread the archives again. I keep losing track of characters. Who's the one with the smushed up face they're mimicking for this poor sincerist?
I go look nao!
Oddly enough, I'm not really interested in the Jakes or whats going on in the scene. The conversation abount the Madames of The Oarlock caught my eye and then grabbed me by the ear when I heard about them being dug up in the desert. Don't ask me why. It had the kind of shock value that really grabbed me. Spike, I wanna know more about that section of Templar history no matter how god awful it might be! Please let us in on more!