San Francisco, History is known for producing great poets and writers in well noted Indian history of medieval times, who were at their best when they were drunk or under effect of opium. Soma Raas was not a Hindu Rig Veda Gift. It came from central Asia and still exists there, as part of central Asian culture..
The famous California son Jack London once wrote, “white light of alcohol granted access to bleak truths about human conditions – the pitiless spectole of the while logic.
Booze is the illumination and consolation that helps you see and survive the reality of life”. The great American poet Dennis Johnson talks of drinking as a sense of affinity of angels descending on mankind from heavens with a half glorious, half absurd white light.
Life magazine produced an article on John Berrimore in 1967 for his great poetry “whiskey and ink these are the only two fluids John Berrimore needs”.
And who on earth will forget “Madhushala” from our beloved Harivansh Rai Bachchan.
So what can be more heartless and cold hearted brutality of sobriety taught at Alcoholics Anonymous. Long Live Madhushala.
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