03-10-2012, 01:42 PM
I'm not sure, but there bloody well ought to be. It's white wine but it's my precious...
In "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters", Julian Barnes writes:
... you won't even admit the true nature of Noah, your first father -- the pious patriarch, the committed conservationist. I gather that one of your Hebrew legends asserts that Noah discovered the principles of intoxication by watching a goat get drunk on fermented grapes. What a brazen attempt to shift responsibility on to the animals; and all, sadly, part of a pattern. The Fall was the serpent's fault, the honest raven was a slacker and a glutton, the goat turned Noah into an alkie.
So it's essentially all the goat's fault. Srijantje did it.
In "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters", Julian Barnes writes:
... you won't even admit the true nature of Noah, your first father -- the pious patriarch, the committed conservationist. I gather that one of your Hebrew legends asserts that Noah discovered the principles of intoxication by watching a goat get drunk on fermented grapes. What a brazen attempt to shift responsibility on to the animals; and all, sadly, part of a pattern. The Fall was the serpent's fault, the honest raven was a slacker and a glutton, the goat turned Noah into an alkie.
So it's essentially all the goat's fault. Srijantje did it.
It could be worse