IN VINO VERITAS?????

Tolstoi and Gorky

         "I do not like people when they are drunk, but I know some who become interesting when they are tipsy, who acquire what is not natural to them in their sober state ----wit, beauty of thought, alertness, and richness of language. In such cases I am ready to bless wine.”

as told by Tolstoi to Gorky

HERE AND GONE

"For a moment, while you held me fast in your outstretched arms, I thought the river stood still and did not flow...

Hush, hush, all things pass with the waters of the eastward-flowing river."

Chinese poem