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·Apr 10, 2018

Distress Tolerance

The body broken by alcohol — Reading The Iliad and The Odyssey, it’s easy to get the idea that Homer might have been a bit of a lush, based on how adoringly he writes about booze. Throughout both texts, he repeatedly describes the sea as being “wine-dark.” To a random swineherd, Odysseus says, “It is the…

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The Body Broken by Alcohol
The Body Broken by Alcohol
Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf. He was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University.

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