Excerpt from John Barleycorn
I outlined my life to Charmian, and expounded the make-up of my constitution. I was no he reditary alcoholic. I had been born with no or ganie, chemical predisposition toward alcohol. In this matter I was normal in my generation. Alcohol was an acquired taste. It had been pdn fully acquired. Alcohol had been a dreadfully repugnant thing - more nauseous than any physit. Even now I did not like the taste of It. I drank it only for its kick And from the age of five to that of twenty-five, I had not learned to care for its kick. Twenty years of unwilling appren ticeship had been required to make my system re belliously tolerant of alcohol, to make me, in the heart and the deeps of me, desirous of alcohol.
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| ISBN: | 9780282549565 |
| Publication date: | 25th July 2017 |
| Author: | Jack London |
| Publisher: | Forgotten Books an imprint of Fb&c Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 370 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |