No, alcohol and books do not belong together any more than
drinking and driving. Libraries should stick to their mylar
book covers as cobblers should stick to their lasts.

There would be something appropriate about buying a desirable edition
of "On the Road" or "The Good Soldier Svejk" when you were as drunk
as the author was when writing it.

I once bought a book when coming down off an acid trip. I went into
the second-hand bookshop in Shortland Street, Auckland, next to the
park (I think it's still there 40 years on). The book that caught my
eye was a 1970-ish British edition of Elizabeth Smart's "By Grand
Central Station I Sat Down and Wept", with a purely typographic
cover - plain black serif type on white, but with the letters at the
bottom made to run as if dissolved by a tear. That drip *moved*.

I bought it on the spot and went off home reading it in a trance. I've
still got it and it works just as well a few decades after taking the
chemicals.

(Google isn't finding me that cover design - is there a cover design
archive somewhere that might show it?)

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