Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tour de Cambridge" this is Katie G.'s birthday and sadly she will be out of town so we will have to drink her share too. Scott F. has kindly agreed to stand in for Katie for the evening to receive all gifts and drinks that otherwise would've been directed at Katie, so thank you Scott...
...bitterness among Republicans and disgust among Democrats could become a kind of poison in the system. Clinton's outside advisers are pushing for discretion. Says one: "I hope he just gives a 30-second statement saying, 'I'm glad it's over,' and goes upstairs for a cold drink...
Sami: It depends on how much you drink...
...Scandinavians drink more than most...
Herbert is underlining the spotty yet rewarding nature of human perception, in which you must drink sleep that the forest may come. The confidence that the "forest will come" is reminiscent of both ancient prophecy and that language of television commercials which somehow capture the religiosity of modern times: this ancient is modern trick is common in Herbert. Note also his lack of punctuation, typical of all the poems in Elegy for the Departure, as well as his readiness to disregard physical categories (e.g. "a grain of water," "a chord of light"). Through such inverted interest in the elements, Herbert...