"This stuff is like the crack cocaine of the 18th century."
Y'know, I was just thinking that this very morning. Not that I've drunk gin of late, but I occasionally fantasize that I'm teaching an art-history course, and I particularly like to talk in my head about Gin Lane/Beer Street and Cupid as Linkboy/Mercury as Cutpurse.
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Date: 2011-08-08 04:06 pm (UTC)"This stuff is like the crack cocaine of the 18th century."
Y'know, I was just thinking that this very morning. Not that I've drunk gin of late, but I occasionally fantasize that I'm teaching an art-history course, and I particularly like to talk in my head about Gin Lane/Beer Street and Cupid as Linkboy/Mercury as Cutpurse.