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Isaac Hayes plays on the New Haven Green. Inspired by the calmness of the event, I make plans to drink to wretched excess.
Saturday, 2004-08-28 | Classic Gin, New Haven, Strong Drink
For the first time in recent memory I fire my nightly beacon into the starry night with a steady hand--from towering intoxication, it seems, the Gods have granted me a momentary reprieve.
Isaac Hayes performed tonight on the New Haven Green for large assembly of people. It was the sort of event that prompts one to wonder at his own good fortune. That things could be so calm, so fuzzy and momentarily right with the world remains marvellous to me. To sit on the Green tonight and be a part of the event was to know the sensation most completely unlike the first bleary awareness of birdsong before dawn.
The stillness of this night has been mollifying. To focus on objects, to be confident of my footing and to have the luxury of un-slurred speech; these things have returned like friends long missed to me this evening. That I write this text now without the certainty that I will wake up on my living room floor six or so hours after I upload it is a fact that circumstance has caused me to cherish.
It may seem quaint, but the faith I have that I will wake up tomorrow un-plagued by unquenchable thirst, an un-steadying feeling of distance from my limbs and a throb that is simultaneously dull and piercing behind my eyes is a faith of inestimable value to me.
Do not, however, make the mistake that Catullus' critics made in assuming that he had gone soft because
the subject of his verse was love and his tone of his verse was gentle. I shall be back en route the the bottom of the bottle come tomorrow afternoon. And, come 24 hours from now, this warm encomium will have been replaced by bitter lament and dire brevity as I'm borne away to the umbral vale of troubled sleep by the million-ton albatross that is both my genetic destiny and my chosen path.
When howling Inebriety calls again tomorrow, I intend to answer her.
