You have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a shit you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is.
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- Kingsley Amis on hangovers. It’s Friday, so why don’t you go ahead and read a mid-length New Yorker piece on drinking to prepare yourself for the coming weekend?
Another nugget: “In keeping with the saying about the Eskimos’ nine words for snow, the Ukrainians have several words for hangover.”
