The Anecdote Bin

A SOUTHPORT, Connecticut reader who identifies himself only as R., offers a couple of definitions. An alcoholic, he or she says, is a space walker in orbit looking at the world through rose-colored eyeballs. And an AA doubter is a skeptic tank. Both of these characters remind us of the wheeze in Diner's Club Magazine which states that some men always know when they've had too much--a little blurred tells them. To which reader P. A. Z., of Sandusky, Ohio, avers that AA is a form of magic that pulls habits out of rats.