From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... enormous capacity
for beer, I was elected ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
On account of my enormous
capacity for beer, I was
elected to membership
in one of the drinking societies, and soon became one of the leading spirits.
2.
... enormous expanse
of freedom, we found it ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In charting this enormous
expanse of freedom, we
found it necessary to post only two storm signals: A group ought not do anything which would greatly injure A.A. as a whole, nor ought it affiliate itself with anything or anybody else.
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