No one in the history of humanity has ever taken heroin and not become addicted
I read a really creepy thriller once (when I was very short of reading matter) in which there was a subsidiary character who was a jazz pianist who had become addicted to heroin after somebody covertly slipped him some one time at a party* (you know, in that naive manner of jazz musicians). Our hero took him in, because of some plot convolution I totally forget, and in the process helped him go cold turkey and get clean. This hurt/comfort motif, combined with the general misogyny - the two main female characters were sisters, one was a slut who had Betrayed the hero and his love for her, the other was her uptight spinster sister who turned out to be both secretly in love with the hero and a psychopathic murderess - made me to go hmmmmm even before I'd heard of slash. Anyway, the jazz musician was An Innocent Victim.
*This is the 'they put sherry in the trifle at the kiddies' party and now I am a hopeless alcoholic' defence.
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Date: 2009-11-10 09:42 pm (UTC)I read a really creepy thriller once (when I was very short of reading matter) in which there was a subsidiary character who was a jazz pianist who had become addicted to heroin after somebody covertly slipped him some one time at a party* (you know, in that naive manner of jazz musicians). Our hero took him in, because of some plot convolution I totally forget, and in the process helped him go cold turkey and get clean. This hurt/comfort motif, combined with the general misogyny - the two main female characters were sisters, one was a slut who had Betrayed the hero and his love for her, the other was her uptight spinster sister who turned out to be both secretly in love with the hero and a psychopathic murderess - made me to go hmmmmm even before I'd heard of slash. Anyway, the jazz musician was An Innocent Victim.
*This is the 'they put sherry in the trifle at the kiddies' party and now I am a hopeless alcoholic' defence.