My Separation From Guilt

WHEN I STARTED drinking, in the early 1960s, I slid into having a regular affair with guilt, but our relationship became really serious only when I drank. At that point, not everything I did was under the influence of alcohol. But right from the start when drinking, I never failed to spend at least part of the evening rerunning imaginary film clips from the great embarrassing moments of my young life, for the purpose of feeling guilty about them all over again.