Oliver Goldsmith
“Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, gives genius a better discerning.”

Hyalophagy
(noun) Glass-eating, sometimes a pathological condition but also done for shock effect by performers in the same vein as sword-swallowing, pounding nails up the nostrils, etc.

From 10/19/09


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