Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also a spiritual being, nay, more, a mystical, supra-spiritual being. And here I was, waiting for all three.. to throw up." The voice, belonging to Erofeev, the author-narrator of Moscow Circles, reeks of cheap vodka and ironic self-revelation. Erofeev, you see, is not merely drunk--he's metaphysically smashed, floating somewhere on the far side of oblivion, in the alcoholic backwater of heightened consciousness. His sodden satirical monologue is a latter-day Notes from Underground (and under the influence)--a profoundly funny novel that ranks as a satirical masterpiece. In his preface, Erofeev explains that...
...World News often reads like a tour of the author's mind conducted by a drunk and disorderly Falstaff. It is an original book, and a witty one, with strengths and faults that are, much like those of its heroes--human...
...that of acknowledging one's natural potential for violence and destruction. Rape need not be involved. Was not that you, so many years ago, standing on the sidelines while that other boy was bullied in the playground? Or you in the crowd that razzed the old drunk in the park? Or you in the rear when they set fire to the cat? Child's play, possibly, but boy's play primarily; and the child becomes the man. If you have cast off most of the cruelty of boyhood, still some of the fascination with cruelty remains...
...produced a false sense of personal supremacy, and that was that, it would be less menacing. But the "crash" from coke, the letdown when the drug wears off and heady illusions disappear, is grim. To ward off melancholy and the jitters after the supply runs out, many users get drunk or take sedatives like Quaaludes. Or worse. "The drug that works best to cut the crash," says
...caller was Cecil Andrews, 37, an unemployed roofer and day laborer who had a history of instability. On the night he telephoned his threat or plea to WHMA, he was staggering drunk. Andrews was apparently near the Jacksonville square (actually, a green rectangle bordered by shops and the city's police and fire stations) when he phoned the TV newsroom three times within half an hour. He was there when Simmons and Harris arrived and set up their lights and camera, more than an hour after Andrews' original call. The police insist that they and volunteer firemen combed the area...