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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: thirty plunks will buy, and it is equally amazing the quantity of booze
outside of which twenty stiffs will get. Beer and cheap wine made up the card,
with alcohol thrown in for the BLOWD-IN-THE-GLASS stiffs. It was great--an
orgy under the sky, a contest of beaker-men, a study in primitive beastliness.
To me there is something fascinating in a drunken man, and were I a college
president I should institute P.G. psychology courses in practical drunkenness.
It would beat the books and compete with the laboratory.
"All of which is neither here nor there, for after sixteen hours of it, early
next morning, the whole push was COPPED by an overwhelming array of constables
and carted off to jail. After breakfast, about ten o'clock, we were lined
upstairs into court, limp and spiritless, the twenty of us. And there, under
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