If it isn't a natural craving--like to like--it's a proof of immortality, for it represents the wild wish to forget the world, to be in another medium.
"I am only myself when I am drunk.

Liquor makes me human.

At other times I'm merely Charley Steele! Now isn't it funny, this sort of talk here ?" "I don't know about that," she answered, "if, as you say, it's natural.
This tavern's the only place I have to think in, and what seems to you funny is a sort of ordinary fact to me." "Right again, ma belle Suzon.

Nothing's incongruous.

I've never felt so much like singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs as when I've been drinking.