Augusten Burroughs, in "Dry," depicts himself sprawled out on a mattress sodden with his own leakings, surrounded by dozens of almost-empty Scotch bottles that have become bustling habitats for fruit flies.
The gigantic overflowing ashtray and the empty bottles of scotch help account for the fact that both appear to be struggling to get to grips with the faculty of speech, and that Wilkinson's brother Yan has forgotten to turn up at all.
The tourist information centre, which is on the first floor of the two-storey building, will be temporarily relocated to an empty shop unit on Scotch Street during the work.
You've fled in terror across the frozen lake,you've found yourself in the sand, the palace, the prison, the dockside stews;and long ago, on this same planet, you came hometo an empty house, poured a Scotch-and-soda,and sat in a recliner in the unlit rumpus room,puzzled at what became of you.
There is no shortage of empty wine bottles, vodka bottles, scotch bottles.
I don't say this lightly, but given the particular cocktail of recent events in my life, this conference felt akin to drinking a double-shot of scotch on an empty stomach.
1975 Mini-bar fraud reaches a crisis as more and more hotels report that guests are emptying the contents and refilling bottles of scotch with iced tea and bags of M&Ms with gravel.
This has barely even counted as a campaign, more an opportunity for some of the world's least charismatic nimrods to squabble over a maximum of about 10 seats with a mixture of empty buzzwords and gaspingly insincere stop-offs at regional scotch egg factories.
Others, whose sofas often entertained Leith's slumbering form, would wake in the morning to find drinks cupboards and fridges emptied: 'I didn't mind the bottles of port and the scotch,' one friend recalls, 'but he would eat all the cheese in the house, too, anything he could find.' These tales of excess had a kind of shadow life.
