"People who drink coffee are ...insane and possessed,and what is worse, willing to be posessed. Most people in asylums drink coffee. If you let them stop drinking it they would gain enough equanimity to leave. But no, they don't stop. In fact they drink more and more, and they get crazier and crazier. They're dehumanized with every single goddamned drop, and although they sense it, they are like lemmings, or buffalo who jump off cliffs. People drink coffee and it makes them insane.""Must you drink coffee? Why not cocoa, tea, cola tea, mate, yoco infusion or guarana? Why caffeine? Why not theobromine or theophylline ? ....You know what they used to put in ground coffee to bulk it up?.. Roots, rocks, baked horse liver, clays, ground peanut shells, copra, sisal, feathers and pig shit. And no one knew. How would they have known? They were already Hogarthian zombies who professed allegience to.. to what? To a king? To a messiah? To a belief? To what? To what? Not even a false messiah or a usurping pretender, not even to a wrong idea or a hypnotic creed. But to a bean, a bean, a bean, bean, bean, bean!"
Exerpt from one of many coffee rants in "Memoirs From Antproof Case" by Mark Helprin p 215, 216
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