Popular Culture Review Vol. 17, No. 1, Winter 2006 | Page 68

64 Popular Culture Review self-indulgence and wine-soaked sentimentality are clearly evident in his rhapsodic yearning to travel alone in a tear and sparkle in the saintly martyrdom of alcoholic hopelessness: New thresholds, new anatomies! Wine talons Build freedom up about me and distill This competence—to travel in a tear Sparkling alone, within another’s will. (29-32) Apparently, however, the persona has not had enough, although he has far exceeded his limit and is now completely out of control (as with any chronically addicted drinker, he r V