Tuesday AA literature post - Parallel Passages in the Big Book and 12&12:

Parallel Passages in the BB and T&T:

For the next few years fortune threw money and applause

my way. I had arrived. My judgment and

ideas were followed by many to the tune of paper millions.

The great boom of the late twenties was seething and swelling. 

Drink was taking an important and

exhilarating part in my life. There was loud talk in

the jazz places uptown. Everyone spent in thousands

and chattered in millions. Scoffers could scoff and be

damned. I made a host of fair-weather friends.

   My drinking assumed more serious proportions, continuing

all day and almost every night. The remonstrances of my friends

terminated in a row and I became a lone wolf. There were many

unhappy scenes in our sumptuous apartment. There had been no

real infidelity, for loyalty to my wife, helped at times by

extreme drunkenness, kept me out of those scrapes.

        BB Page 3, Bill's Story

“As material success founded upon no more than these

ordinary attributes began to come to us, we felt we were

winning at the game of life. This was exhilarating, and it

made us happy. Why should we be bothered with theological

abstractions and religious duties, or with the state of our

souls here or hereafter? The here and now was good

enough for us. The will to win would carry us through. But

then alcohol began to have its way with us.

        T&T 28-29 Step Two