Mr Suttree it is our understanding that at curfew rightly decreed by law and in that hour wherein night draws to its proper close and the new day commences and contrary to conduct befitting a person of your station you betook yourself to various low places within the shire of McAnally and there did squander several ensuing years in the company of thieves, derelicts, miscreants, pariahs, poltroons, spalpeens, curmudgeons, clotpolls, murderers, gamblers, bawds, whores, trulls, brigands, topers, tosspots, sots and archsots, lobcocks, smellsmocks, runagates, rakes, and other assorted and felonious debauchees.
I was drunk, cried Suttree.
"Suttree, Cormac McCarthy
(If ever there was a time for CM to use an exclamation point, it was within that last line.)
Spot the evening visitor. Almost cut our dog food demand in half.
Martinez (variation)
1 1/2 oz gin
1 1/2 oz sweet vermouth
barspoon Campari
dashes Angostura
stir/strain
