UWP Lecturers Coffee-house Update

[Steven Axelrod]

Give that man a decaf!

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Kate Watt <katecwatt at gmail.com> wrote:

> This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general
> commotion.  Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the
> battlefield, and the battle takes place.  Things remembered arrive at full
> gallop, ensuing to the wind.  The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a
> magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their
> train and ammunition, the shafts of wit start up like sharpshooters.
> Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and
> is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.
> ~Honore de Balzac, "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee."
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