The Drunkard’s Progress Scale -
The Drunkard's Progress Scale
This is a piece entitled, “The Drunkard’s Progress: From the First Glass to the Grave”, by Currier & Ives.
I am using it as a highly subjective, linear scale to accompany my (theoretically) objective letter grade system. It is a scale based on how much I like the drink, how often I could see myself drinking the drink and, in certain delicious cases, how far I would go and to what lengths of destitution I would go to continue drinking it.
The steps are as follows:
STEP 1: A glass with a Friend.
STEP 2: A glass to keep the cold out.
STEP 3: A glass too much.
STEP 4: Drunk and riotous.
STEP 5: The summit attained / Jolly companions / A confirmed drunkard.
STEP 6: Poverty and Disease.
STEP 7: Forsaken by Friends.
STEP 8: Desperation and Crime.
STEP 9: Death by suicide.
Too jolly for you? Not enough subversion of cultural taboos? Take a look at what lies below the arch.
‘Tis a pity. A delicious, bubbly, rapturous pity.
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We breathed some life into the old taproom at the Bull Run Tavern, Shirley Dec 5th as we gathered under the famous mural – The Drunkards Progress.
We attempted to sing a song for every step of the way! Here are some pictures of the evening of great debauchery!
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