I don’t think many people need an introductory course on How to Drink Alone, but this article does illustrate the “art” of drinking alone quite admirably.
It certainly takes skill and a fair amount of creativity to turn the somber act of solitary drinking into some type of poetic catharsis. Of course the most common result of this solo activity is loneliness and depression, but you wouldn’t know that from those that wax poetic on the subject.
Drink liquor — whiskey. Listen a little. Enjoy the muffled aural measures of a bar waking up. Watch the door or the window instead. Draw connections to the world outside, even as it recedes slightly from perception. Notice the angles of light, the pulse of the traffic, even the evolution of customers who drift in as the day twists down to its nub.
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