***** and ***** are tragedies of Greek proportion. Take a man with potential and then give him a steady dose of either (or both) withdraw it, and watch him degenerate.
Itβs not the *** act or the alcohol its self, itβs the effect they produce on oneβs psyche. We will always equate that which we feel emotionally with absolute truth.
If one has given himself completely (with abandon) to either pursuit, when removed, there will be a vacuum a gaping hole that without an act from the gods, will never be filled