“There was R., an Englishman who lived six months of the year in Putney with his parents and six months in France. During his time in France he drank four litres of wine a day, and six litres on Saturday; he once had travelled to the Azores, because the wine there is cheaper than anywhere in Europe. He was a gentle domesticated creature, never rowdy or quarrelsome and never sober. He would lie in bed until midday, and from then till midnight he was in his corner at the bistro, quietly and methodically soaking. While he soaked he talked, in a refined womanish voice, about antique furniture.”
George Orwell, “Down and Out in Paris and London”, 1933.
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