David Hume could out-consume

is sf0 just too far westward for your course... to make it out to task?? imperialist! go back to the highlands!

Plato, they say, could stick it away-- Half a crate of whisky every day.

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There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'Bout the raising of the wrist.

And René Descartes was a drunken fart. 'I drink, therefore I am.'

Bird was a living justification.... He is to the Second World War what the dadaist was to the first. He is amoral, anarchistic, gentle, and overcivilized to the point of decadence. He is always ten steps ahead of the game because of his awareness......

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Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed. Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed, A lovely little thinker, But a bugger when he's pissed.