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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!dante
- From: dante@microsoft.com (throated plaid)
- Subject: Re: Be Drunk (was Re: Depression)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.205759.18727@microsoft.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 20:57:59 GMT
- Organization: the velvet sweatshop
- References: <ivy.724436562@camelot> <1992Dec15.210504.10803@sfu.ca> <1992Dec16.052228.11342@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec16.052228.11342@netcom.com> despair@netcom.com (Scott Hanson) writes:
- |Many people have been airing out their feelings regarding alcohol and
- |drunkenness. I would like to point out an expert's opinion, an expert in
- |both angst and drunkenness. Baudelaire.
- |
- |Be Drunk, he said, with wine, with poetry, or with love. To escape our
- |Master Time. Badly quoted from memory, please excuse me.
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- The actual quote:
- It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the
- martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk.
- On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
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