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"I had no idea that the conquest of Poland was due to the drinking of vermouth-cassis by the Poles. I think all the clipping that you have sent me establishes is the possibility that beer is better than vermouth-cassis. I don't think so myself. But what a time we live in when one man yowls for vermouth-cassis, another for beer, another for coca-cola, another for rye. Good god, what a mess!"
Wallace Stevens to Wilson Taylor, 13 January 1941
Incidental to the Stevens, when I was last in London a shocking number of restaurants seemed confused by my request for vermouth-cassis as an aperitif. |