“Wine is one of the most civilised things in the world…”
but why? Civilisation is a human construct as is
wine. It’s no more civilised than stainless
steel which we also touch to our
lips and which builds our
bridges over those
uncivilised
rivers.
This was written in response to dVerse (again belated) Quadrille #125. I have answered the prompt but I hope I won’t be considered a bad sport for failing to take up the “in praise of wine” mantel.
Out of the Cave 
have a glass of human constuct and get drunk on poetry while we do
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Oh yes. Good one!
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This is a unique persepctive- I like it!
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Thank you. 🙂
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I think he said it because he liked drinking it. He’d obviously never walked through my hometown sober on a Saturday night!
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Yes. I did consider an approach of “the liquid may be civilised but what it does to people isn’t” but I decided perhaps that was straying too far from the brief. 🙂
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I digress from the topic at hand but I can see clearly from your photo why that salvia is named ‘Hot Lips’.
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😀 thank you for the name! I forgot to ask my mother in law what it was called. It is a hot lips, no doubt! Salvia. Oh dear. Forevermore I shall confuse it with saliva.
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You make me laugh.
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🙂
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I used to quote Hemingway as saying “Write drunk, edit sober,” but I’ve found there is actually no source attributing it to him. Hemingway was known for drinking a lot though. I fall asleep after a few glasses. I think it just affects everyone different. Enjoyed the description of rivers as uncivilized…it’s interesting to examine that word!
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When I was in China, so many people told me “French is the most beautiful language in the world.” It’s like they got taught it in Primary School. It didn’t bother me too much… maybe because I like the sound of French too. But I do find declaratory statements like that bizarre. Stating opinion like it’s fact. And maybe, it bothers me more now than it did then because of so much uncivilized water under so many stainless steel bridges. 😉🙂
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I have mixed feelings about booze. On the whole positive, but I have done stuff I regret when in drink.
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you have inspired a post from me, Hobbo: look for it tomorrow 🙂
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Will do!
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😦 didn’t work out; bugger !
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I’m sure it is simmering on that back burner!
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I like the shrinking spill of this, very much.
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😎🙂
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Here’s to a glass of stainless steel, here’s to you!
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Thanks. Shall enjoy.
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a fascinating topic and you pay homage to it succinctly well. Cheers 🙂
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Lovely bridge you create to accentuate the Hemingway quote. Thought-provoking quadrille.
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Excellent! A graceful stainless steel truss bridge is poetry incarnate. 😀
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Thank you! 😆. The poetry in architecture is not to be sneezed at.
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I actually find the analysis quite beautiful as well – just Newton’s second applied over and over but each equation linking each joint to the next… a bit like one of those repeating poetry forms where each line is a variation of the last. Hmmm… I’ve told my students that truss analysis is fun, like a cross-word or sudoku, and they just glaze at me. Maybe they will appreciate a poetry analogy more! 😀
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My husband agrees that truss analysis is fun! 😆. Can’t say I have participated in the sport. But I am an excellent spectator. 🙂
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Would never call you a poor sport …. in fact, I will raise my glass of Pinot to you this evening.
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😊. Thanks. 🥂
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