“Nor could the foole abstaine,
But drunke as often.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) English dramatist, poet, and translator
Homer's Odysses (1614), Book IX, line 496
“It would be pleasant to be drunk:
faithless to my tongue and hands,
giving up the boundaries
for the heroic gin.
Dead drunk is the term I think of,
insensible,
neither cool nor warm,
without a head or foot.
To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.
I will try it shortly.”
"Letter Written During a January Northeaster"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)
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