The Twelve Steps Revisited / Step 8

THERE'S a spicy bit of folklore around called "The Hell-Bound Train," in which the devil taunts a trainload of alcoholic wraiths as follows: "You've mocked at God in your hell-born pride, you've plundered and cheated and sworn and lied; you've swindled, murdered, robbed and stole; not one hasn't perjured his soul." It's enough to make a repentant alcoholic curl up and disappear into the nap of the nearest rug.