Well now don’t be that way. Son, don’t be that way, now. Don’t get all oversensitive on me, son, when all I’m trying to do is help you. Son, Jim, I hate this when you do this. Your chin just disappears into that bow-tie when your big old overhung lower lip quivers like that. You look chinless, son, and big-lipped. And that cape of mucus that’s coming down on your upper lip, the way it shines, don’t, just don’t, it’s revolting, son, you don’t want to revolt people, you have to learn to control this sort of oversensitivity to hard truths, this sort of thing, take and exert some goddamn control
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Contrast this with AA's doctrine: you cannot control, you can only accept. Note too how belligerent, ugly, and insensitive JOI's father grows as he moves further into drunkenness and more importantly further into a fruitless grasp for control. Advances themes of addiction, repeating cycles (especially in families), and adds to the characters of JOI and the Incandenza children.
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