Word: drunkness
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...himself a bold writer, and “The Lost Books” moves deftly and confidently out of the realm of adaptation into its own imagined ground. His sentences, brawny and lithe, add their own muscle to Homer’s verse. “When he was drunk, Achilles would take his knife and try to pierce his hand, or, if he was very drunk, his heart, and thereby were the delicate blades of many daggers broken,” he writes of the reckless hero...
...caves. He also published his first poems, which he has since likened to "tufts of grass among the ruins" of the fratricidal war - a typically earthy metaphor for a poet derided by his detractors as artless and quaintly rustic. The landscapes in his poems are undeniably folksy. Villagers get drunk on bootleg makgeolli - the milky, fizzy rice wine making a comeback in South Korea these days, thanks in part to a national grain surplus. Surprised burglars are spotlit by incandescent moons. Young lovers do amorous things in barley fields while dogs couple in dusty streets. Fauna make their appearance throughout...
...said he opposed it on moral grounds. "We shouldn't encourage people to partake of alcohol, especially on the Sabbath," he says, noting that passage of the bill would send a conflicting message to the public, since the legislature is currently working to strengthen state drunk driving laws...
...study includes a crucial caveat: its analysis "focuses on the impact of tax policy and tax revenue for the state, not the social policy implications of allowing Sunday sales," it reads. Various studies have produced conflicting results about whether Sunday sales lead to more drunk driving or even more alcohol consumption, and those issues remain stumbling blocks - even when wine with Valentine's Day dinner is on the line...
...knows how to lead). Sometimes it’s exhilarating to simply surrender and follow along. So that’s what I did, if only for a couple of songs, before my family and I piled back into the cab to return to our hotel, punch drunk and exuberant from the evening’s excitement...