beagle-drink - The Monday Morning Memo

“It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes
after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the
drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.”
– Samuel Butler
(1835-1902)

Brad Whittington,
father of Vice Chancellor Daniel Whittington,
has written a scholarly book on the subject of alcohol and Christianity.
A very interesting read. Extremely well documented. Seriously.
The paperback is $6.74 and the Kindle version is 99 cents.
Worth a look if the subject has ever been of interest to you.

“The things that make our lives so tenuous, so unlikely, that we barely come into being, barely meet the people we’re meant to love, barely survive our way in the woods, barely survive catastrophe every day. Your origin is due to two people come together, by accident, whether wisely or not, by the attractions of similarity and difference, who survive each other’s fears and limits long enough to create the collision of the two cells from which you spring. A million sperm swim at every egg, and somehow the one that makes the journey all the way begets you in combination with the single maternal cell; the faintest rearrangement of that unthinkable coupling and someone else arrives on earth out of that maze inside your mother; or no one comes into being; or your mother neglects one moment in that terrifying vulnerability that is your first few years and you are snuffed out like a candle, drowned in the bath, choked on a button found on the floor.”

- Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby, p. 68-69

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