Well, I have a nasty feeling that if she were going to melt, she would have melted by now. I don't think I've ever given someone such full-on charm before.
But she seems to want to keep things strictly Platonic.
And I don't think that's worth flying 3,000 miles for. Not until I get over being infatuated with her, anyway.
Every bar is a memory.
And all the memories huddle together for company, so that in my mind it often seems as though every bar I've ever been in is on the same street, or at least in the same neighbourhood; every great drinking session I fondly recall happened on one night, or over the course of one weekend; and everyone I've ever drunk with fuses into a single person, the idealised Drinking Companion.
Sometimes it seems to me also that the melancholy that infuses so many of these memories had but a single cause, an idealised Lost Love.
Some of these memories I will now try to share with the enormous, faceless, blog-munching world at large.
These, then, are the mental voyages of the boozehound Froog; his many-year mission to seek out new drinks and new places to drink them in, to write The Meaning Of Life on a napkin.... andnotlose it on the way home.
Froog is an escaped lawyer - but there is no need for alarm; he is only a danger to himself, not to the general public. An eternal wanderer, he now lives in an exotic city somewhere in the 'Third World' *, where he is held prisoner by an unfinished novel (or, more precisely, an unstarted novel). He spends a lot of time running, writing, taking photographs, and falling in love with women who fail to appreciate him. He also spends a lot of time in bars.
[* OK, I'll come clean: I've been living in Beijing since summer '02.]
4 comments:
Save some for when I get back in town.
Don't worry, Weeble, I think there's probably several months of self-destructive drinking in this one!
I just hope it won't take that long for you to return to us. I'm keeping everything crossed.
Don't do that.
Get on the phone.
Get on a plane. If you fly 3,000 miles to see her again, she'll melt.
Well, I have a nasty feeling that if she were going to melt, she would have melted by now. I don't think I've ever given someone such full-on charm before.
But she seems to want to keep things strictly Platonic.
And I don't think that's worth flying 3,000 miles for. Not until I get over being infatuated with her, anyway.
Now, where's that drink?
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