In a tavern in Obor. A little treatise on cinebriety

"How majestic are the spectacles of wine, illumined by an inner sun!"

Charles Baudelaire

In his Treatise on Modern Excitement, Honoré de Balzac recounts his first drunkenness: 'For the first time in my life I tasted one of the most intense, the most extraordinary pleasures of the world, a state of indescribable ecstasy: the pleasure you feel walking through Paris at half past eleven at night, hurriedly carried by lanterns, seeing in passing an infinity of shops, lights, shop names, figures, groups, women under shadows, street corners lit up like fairy tales, dark squares, thousands of things glimpsed in the rain, which you have the false impression that you have seen somewhere else during the day [....] I understood at that moment the pleasure of drunkenness. Drunkenness casts a veil over real life, it wipes away your sorrows and sorrows, it allows you to free yourself from the burden of thoughts' (2016: 38-39). It is as if his world has suddenl