Each night at the witching hour he's drawn back into this lost world of shared, competitive artistic endeavour, becoming the confidant and drinking companion of the arrogant Hemingway, the apt pupil of the peremptory Stein, the saviour of the troubled Zelda from suicide in the Seine, the provider of plots for Buñuel.
Loogan begins working as an editor at the magazine and soon becomes a drinking companion of the editor in chief, Tom Kristoll.
We'd been to the pub together, where Vulcan proved an amiable drinking companion in the beer garden.
How good of the evil drinking companions, I always think, even as I am weeping over the sight of his father's forgiveness, to have left him with enough cash to buy himself new knickers.
When the sight of your gleaming drinking companion jogs your memory next morning, simply reverse the process to view those hilarious snaps - because, apparently, you wouldn't think to do that anyway.
One had three screwdrivers lined up in front of him, and the other, two Heinekens, causing a third drinking companion to comment, "You're like the Costco of alcohol: three drinks, two beers, eight rolls of toilet paper.... .. Our last port before returning to Seattle was Victoria, in British Columbia.
Although it was hard to talk above the thumping drone of bands like Nosferatu, the Shroud, Inkubus Sukkubus and Cruxshadows, we work up the courage to ask our drinking companion where he got his ghoulish get-up.
The amazement had nothing to do with Simon Danczuk's choice of Nigel Farage as his drinking companion in the beer garden of a pub close to that time-honoured home of traitors the Tower of London: Simon has been flirting with Ukip so rigorously that his ritual denial of the intent to jump ship, as reiterated yesterday, sounds more coquettish than categorical.
In 1961, Beckett turned to the Italian sculptor Alberto Giacometti, his Left Bank drinking companion, for help in the run-up to a forthcoming Paris revival of "Godot".
Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, a 35-year-old stabbed a drinking companion, cooked and ate part of the body and sold some of the remainder at a local market as pork.
