inebriated state
halfdrunkenness
Some thoughts of drinking
Joeng Cheol’s Drinking Song(정철의 將進酒辭)
Drink a cup,(한잔 먹세 그려)
Then drink another cup.(또 한잔 먹세 그려)
Plunking flowers to keep the count.(꽃을 꺾어 셈하면서)
Drink,(먹세)
And endlessly drink.(한없이 먹세)
A real drinker is a person who has the sentiment for wine, even though he can not drink only a cup of wine, without having an actual capacity for it.
One just babbles along and babbles along in the state of halfdrunkenness, which is the best and happiest state.
There is a wise thought in the suggestion that the dictators of Europe are so dangerous to humanity because they don’t drink.(“Dictators don’t drink” was a article in Harpers for june 1937 by Mr. Ferguson)
Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini are models of sobriety.
Hilter eats no meat, does not drink, does not smoke. To these things, He adds further and more notable virture of continence.
Mussolini is more of a horse eating. But he abstrains from liquors, now and then taking only a tantalizing glass of light wine.
Stalin lives frugally in a three room apartment, dresses inconspicuously and in self-effacing taste, eats frightfully simple meals, and sips brandy like a connoisseur.