ISSUE 23 | DEC 2012

INTOXICANTS

« Does your marijuana use allow you to live in a privately defined world? » - here you are falling into complete strangers - young, hungover actors - an encounter between impulse and choice - everything he says is being squeezed out of a tube of toothpaste - 60% ELEMENT, 40% HUMAN

Élan Reisner

In Light of the Wineglass

Vermeer - a cordial scene - a double expectation - Temperance and Temptation - allegory and naturalism - an innermost surface which doubles, contains, and warps the outermost - the glare on the wineglass - criminal gullibility - the topographical boundaries of Eden

Michael Kinnucan

Wine and Spirits: Baudelaire’s Orgy and Attention

the thing a student learns - whether it’s time to move on - the comical fallibility of human prudence - his money’s worth - a doorway to eternity - the freedom to give oneself up - « Il est l’heure de s’enivrez! » - to be entirely and serious sad - what does it take to « marry the crowd » ? - some things you can’t talk about sober

Joshua Schwartz

Until You Do Not Know: A Reconsideration of Ethics

substances forbidden by the rabbis - bewildering laws - « a fence around the Torah » - « ...and the opposite occurred! » - always the opposite - Jews are allowed to (gasp!) mix - lubrication and fluidity - blurry misperception and accordant generosity - ecstatic modality - why we put on masks

Baird Henny

Lord De La Warr Story

if you had ever drunk at all - pills are dumped into a just-emptied fishbowl - « Timothy Knox had been wearing his seatbelt » - shrapnel scars on his face - « Yeah I wasn’t too worried about it » - a cruciform joint not intended to be blasphemous - « when I am ready to tell about it in the right way »