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Originally Posted by Oona
wow...that's what it does awrightie. Cherishing pain is an Eastern European Jewish thing. We love our pain. It is one of the few things that cannot be taken away from us. We savor it, steep in it, sink into it's downy folds. For instance, Beauty and the Beast, It ripps me to pieces...I just love how much it hurts me. Slivovitz seems to be something of an amplifier of this odd morose, overcast way of viewing the world. Well, normally I am a rum person, but tonight I needed the bigger guns.
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We're not Jewish, but I so know what you mean. When I stepped off the plane in Bulgaria for the first time in my life, I started sobbing uncontrollably!
But yeah, Slivovitz - bad, bad stuff.
