“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening.”
Belief: drinking to excess makes one forget life‘s tragedies. Fact: drinking to excess is its own formidable tragedy resulting in depression, paranoia, irrationality, cirrhosis, suicide, death 💀 The Great War was horrendous and barbaric and unforgiving. Rivers of alcohol and loss😞