Deleuze notes that there are different ways of being analcoholic. The alcoholism described in Fitzgerald’s booksis not based on lack or need. Alcohol is just always there.In the counter-version to this, alcohol is something desiredin the future. This is the typical example of an alcoholicor drug addict striving to get the next drink or fix. Thefuture is experienced as future perfect (or future-antérieurin French) (Deleuze 1969: 186). The alcoholic or drugaddict has ended up searching for an effect that is alreadyan effect of something else: “The present moment is nolonger that of the alcoholic effect, but that of effect of theeffect” (Deleuze 1993: 159).2 This is the life in the bottle,the crack or the life as demolition. Alcoholism is not basedon a search for pleasure, but rather on a search for an effect.

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