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Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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luka said:
tea is the most mysterious drink cos you can make it the same way every time and one day its soul-healing, intense pleasure and other days its completely inspid and uninspiring
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Nah, it's always good for me, at least when I make it.

The most distressingly awful cup of "tea" I have ever drunk was in Berlin on new year's day, late in the evening. A bunch of us had hit it pretty hard the night before and had been drinking steadily since then, so we'd been awake for getting on for 40 hours and were all nursing a combined speed/ecstasy/Red Bull comedown and beer/Jaegermeister hangover. We were in the bar of the hostel where we were staying and I asked for a cup of tea. What I wanted, and needed, was something no-nonsense like PG Tips or Twinings English Breakfast, brewed toxically strong, with a splash of semi-skimmed and, given the state I was in, probably a couple of sugars as well.

What I was given was a small glass teacup full of hot-ish, but nowhere near boiling, water, with a teabag still in its paper wrapper on the side. This turned out to be Lapsang Suchong or some shit, which has its place, but this was not it. So I had this cup of not-quite-hot-enough, not-quite-strong-enough tea, that was all weirdly perfumed and gross anyway. And black. A request of Haben Sie Milch, bitte? resulted in a little pot of some semi-synthetic, vegetable-fat-based cream substitute that was clearly intended for use with coffee.

I think I had something close to an existential crisis. It actually turned me into Jeremy Clarkson for a moment - "No wonder you cunts lost the war, can't even make a proper fucking cup of tea, grumble grumble..."
 
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luka

luka

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this is another fascinating and disturbing insight into the tea character. tea always tastes the same to you. a man without variables. an even keel.
 
luka

luka

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what we can infer from this is that you feel the same every day. nothing changes. same breezy outlook. nothing can penetrate the carapace.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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luka said:
this is another fascinating and disturbing insight into the tea character. tea always tastes the same to you. a man without variables. an even keel.
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Well, I do drink different blends sometimes. The Lady Grey one that Twinings does is very nice.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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luka said:
what we can infer from this is that you feel the same every day. nothing changes. same breezy outlook. nothing can penetrate the carapace.
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"Take fifty photos of anyone, and in two or three of them, they will look so different as to be unrecognizable. This guy looked the same in every photo.

A person who looks the same in every photo is not a person. They are a person impersonator."

- Burroughs
 
luka

luka

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Mr. Tea said:
"Take fifty photos of anyone, and in two or three of them, they will look so different as to be unrecognizable. This guy looked the same in every photo.

A person who looks the same in every photo is not a person. They are a person impersonator."

- Burroughs
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spot on that guy never misses
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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Quoted from memory, it might not be exactly right. Definitely going to read Cities of the Red Night again, once I've cleared the backlog of books I got for Christmas.
 
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