for delirium was once delight

faoiseamh:

“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a…

deepspeech:

But @approximatelyqueenjane, you forgot the most beautiful part of it, which goes on to say:

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the…

(Source: approximatelyqueenjane)