Meanwhile he talks. He says: I should stop drinking, it would be good to do it, you know in Russia they think beer is a soft drink, there’s the attitude that if you’re not doing it till you black out it doesn’t really count. He says: I don’t need it, it’s just another way of doing things to excess. He says: I can go into a social situation and people are just standing around awkwardly and I can see how to make it work, 1 2 3. Click. Just like that. But then I want to turn around and undo it, 3 2 1. Alcohol isn’t really a way of making it work, it’s a way of resisting that impulse to pull it apart again.