[NetBehaviour] Excellent: On Drinking - Guy Debord...

[andy]

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The legend of the holy drinker?

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>           On Drinking
>
> Guy Debord
>
> After the circumstances that I have just recalled, it is no doubt the
>quickly acquired habit of drinking that has marked my entire life. Wines,
>spirits and beers: the moments when some of them became essential and the
>moments when they returned have traced out the main course and meanders of
>days, weeks and years. Two or three other passions, which I will talk
>about, have almost continually taken up a lot of space in this life. But
>drinking has been the most constant and the most present. Among the small
>number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have
>assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I
>have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write;
>but I have drunk much more than most people who drink. I can count myself
>among those of whom Baltasar Gracian, thinking about an elite
>distinguishable only among the Germans - but here very unfair, to the
>detriment of the French, as I think I have shown - could say: 'There are
>those who have got drunk only once, but it has lasted them a lifetime.'
>
> Furthermore, I am a little surprised - I who have had to read so often
>the most extravagant calumnies or unjust criticisms of myself - to see
>that a total of thirty years or more have passed without some malcontent
>ever instancing my drunkenness as an argument, at least implicitly,
>against my scandalous ideas - with the one, belated exception of a piece
>by some drug addicts in England who revealed around 1980 that I was
>destroyed by alcohol and had thus ceased to be harmful. I never dreamed
>for an instant of hiding this perhaps questionable side of my personality,
>and it was there beyond doubt for all those who met me more than once or
>twice. I can even note that it has sufficed me on each occasion a rather
>few days in order to be highly regarded, in Venice as in Cadiz, and in
>Hamburg as in Lisbon, by the people I have met only by frequenting certain
>cafes.
>
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> http://www.monoculartimes.co.uk/avantgardening/debordondrinking.shtml
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