deleted name: You’re maybe still
young enough not to know this, appreciate this, or, you might know this in
theory but not in fact, but take this knowledge home as your one souvenir: that
equilibrium between euphoria and nausea is going to shift and shift hard.
Standing,
he draws directly onto the wall’s painted plaster two linear diagrams to better
illustrate his subject.
deleted name: When you’re
young you can drink and sustain your euphoria, and whatever sickness comes
subsequent to that has just a short tail. The older you get though, that
fulcrum crawls back and further back into your drinking time, and that short
tail of nausea starts to get longer and longer, until you can consider that
heightened sense of your well-being very well and truly encroached upon.
and
then, raising his shotglass,
deleted name: To the law of
diminishing returns.
