“He was not actually drunk, but emotion made him feel as if he were. Sorrow, loss, anger—these were as good as a bottle of the very worst gin.”

— Michael Swanwick , book Jack Faust

Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 19, “Ashes” (pp. 318-319)

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