Midleton Very Rare Irish Whiskey 2008
or Why St. Patrick’s Day Eats Knobby Green Shillelaghs
…and An Anecdote About The Second Worst Thing I’ve Ever Had In My Mouth.
“Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.” — Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”