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2003569 No.2003569 [Reply] [Original]

What/how do you guys drink while reading?

I recently turned 21 and I would like some advice on mixing alcohol with literature -- from those with experience in the matter.

Gentlemen of /lit/, I beseech you.

>> No.2003573

Scotch. and Port.
^This is you're in your house and it's night-time and you're reading. Wine's not bad, either.

Beer if you're outside.

>> No.2003574

Read Bukowski and drink what he drinks. Thats a good start.

>> No.2003579

Port? you drink like an old lady.

I drink Tabasco

>> No.2003580

Scotch and Port sounds good -- All I have now is some rum, and so far it has made this Pynchon novel even more enjoyable.

>> No.2003582

Bourbon for all Southern literature.

Vodka for Eastern European/Russian literature.

Whiskey for everything else.

>> No.2003584

>>2003582

Is this due to geographical relevance? Or something deeper?

>> No.2003586

Water.
Why anybody would impair their cognitive abilities when reading is beyond me.

>> No.2003592

>>2003586
but it makes fiction so much more fun!

When I read my philosophy anthologies of course I would not drink. Unless it were Socrates, of course.

>> No.2003594

>>2003584
That, plus the fact that Southern literature can be a bit more depressing, and pretty much everyone I know that has hit near-rock bottom drinks Bourbon.

Vodka is entirely geographical.

>> No.2003596

>>2003592
The only time I have read with alcohol in my system was when I read some Borges, it was a horrible experience. I guess if you're reading fairly unsophisticated fiction it doesn't matter.

>> No.2003609

You are reading the wrong book if you need alcohol to make it enjoyable. Or even "even more enjoyable".

Drink tea.

>> No.2003620

>>2003609

Im d'accord with you except for Bukowski. I CANT read his stuff without getting drunk.

>> No.2003623

>>2003620
Bukowski was a hack. Dinosauria we is ok.

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2003633

LE DIO DE intoxication has no need for such follies! I've CRAFTED them for you to get off on your primitive highs; till you learn to get high on mine and later. . . Your own rhetoric.
>Inb4: semi colon what? On 'dat farthest of reaching QUASI-colons that even Cervantes couldn't touch.

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2003637

I generally just drink rum, not to enhance my reading, just because I like rum. Rum and coke is nice. But seriously, just experiment yourself.

Corona is nice too.