Men without women

MEN WITHOUT WOMENmrblo

A friend of David’s owned only one glass. In the mornings he would drink milk with it. In the evenings he would drink beer with it. He held that the beer washed out the milk and then, in turn, the milk washed out the beer, so that he never needed to wash the glass. In the end he got quite sick.

  • You might also like

    • Grendel’s Mum

      BEOWULF J. R. R. and Christopher Tolkien Mariner Books, August 2015   A thousand years on, the sharpness of Beowulf‘s images still strikes us. Longships cruise amid icy spray. A king stares with fear amid the riches of his hall. Then comes the fiend Grendel stalking across the moors. Tolkien’s … Continue reading