“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald , book Tender Is the Night

Dr. Diver speaking of Abe North.
Quoted, Tender is the Night (1934)

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