will you choose the wine?

How do people start to appreciate alcohol? When does it start to taste good? And is red wine essential to a sophisticated person?

What a great offer. I'm jealous. Never feel empty again .

Tell the gentleman that I like to order 12 bottles for a good price.
I can present the wine in restaurants and clubs in my area.

Juliane

You can appreciate certain wines without appreciating let's say whisky.
Do you appreciate all men?
And are you both a gothic and a teetotaler?

ag: speaking of berlin (or not), was that you on the U2 line reading tucholsky and listening in on our conversation about race relations at an american college?

Arnon

Then just exchange "alcohol" for "red wine".

I see whiskey, wine and liquor as one group because they share the one attribute I don't like: they taste bad because they contain alcohol.

If I don't like men it's mostly because I feel sexually threatened and then I see them as men. If I like men, I see them as individuals first and don't speak/think of them as men. So it's just a matter of grouping and labelling.

I just don't like the taste of alcohol even though I drink a glass of champagne from time to time out of politness or because I want to get my "come on, just a little glass"-family off my back. People tell me to try alcopops or to put candy into wodka. But what's the point in gilding the taste if you can have a simple fruitjuice instead? Furthermore I don't feel relaxed or happy when drunk. I'm just getting slow.

(I wouldn't call myself a goth anymore.)

Lawrence

No. I wasn't reading Tucholsky. Isn't this the second time you ask this question?

arnon.

Oh, good for you! It must feel nice.
I will drink you some day.

apologies for the repitition. we were travelling on the U2 toward charlottenburg, when we noticed that a curly-haired man in his mid- to late thirties with rectangular glasses was listening intently to our argument about campus politics. it turned out that the guy was dutch, was reading tucholosky in german, and knew a great deal about american colleges. no sooner had he exited at savignyplatz than it occured to me that the dutchman with excellent taste in subway reading must have been none other than my favorite contemporary dutch novelist (okay, there's also mulisch). an examination of on-line photos left me and my two travelling companions convinced of the accuracy of our identification. odd to learn that it was doppelgaenger.

Dens

Yes, I believe so.

Arnon,
Congratulations! Though it 's a pitty that it isn't a Gewürztraminer.

Lawrence

It wasn't me. Althoug I do like Tucholsky.