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Originally Posted by orlok
That looks good enough to eat! Err...drink!
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Sláinte
I got a good incentive to re-read Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat.
It was/is? a very popular book in the USSR. I read it 20 years ago but meant to re-read it, in English this time, for quite a while.
I cannot resist it this time
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It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs.
We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so.
It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.
After eggs and bacon it says, “Work!” After beefsteak and porter, it says, “Sleep!”
After a cup of tea, it says to the brain,
“Now rise, and show your strength.
Be eloquent, and deep, and tender;
see, with a clear eye, into Nature, and into life:
spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar,
a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you,
up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!”
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Funny, isn't it? I have a glass of whisky when posting
the ritual of the ‘art’ of tea 