For the Sufi poets in particular, poetry is an occasion for mystical experience, and their work frequently offers a vision of transcendence that is grounded in the senses: "O Sun of Tabriz, I am so tipsy here in this world, / I have no tale to tell but tipsiness and rapture".
I was more prone to gentle tipsiness than to hellacious high jinks.
You can open his diaries almost at random and find lines like: "I shall die of drink and makeup"; "It was a piece of glottal cake"; "We are cosmic jokes"; "I was gonged down by a highway patrolman for exceeding the speed limit"; "There are few pleasures to match tipsiness in this murderous world".
It helps that her rival has been dead for two millennia and can be snugly crammed into Harry's rucksack: Horry is the Latin poet Horace who, while Virgil was composing an epic about the Augustan empire, wrote a series of more intimate, jocular, conversational odes that still whisper hearty but healthily sceptical truths about life and love or happiness and tipsiness into Harry's cocked ear.
"At first it was quite impressive, they seemed to be giving a good impersonation of tipsiness," one audience member told a German newspaper.
And it's easy to forget, apart from the tipsiness, which seems to be abating.
For the most part, the show had the hallmarks of a normal Golden Globes ceremony mainly goofiness and tipsiness.
They also frowned at her swift descent into raucous tipsiness and at the way she destroyed any possibility of romance by making an off-color joke about sheep farming in Australia.
Lauren Cohn, as the Drowsy Chaperone, nails her big solo, "As We Stumble Along," a comic anthem that refers not only to the character's tipsiness but to the show's philosophy of how we maneuver through "life's crazy labyrinth".
But you can feel that tipsiness as well in the epic telling of Louisiana history in the permanent exhibition at the Louisiana State Museum at the Cabildo, in tours of nearby plantations, in the very subject of a new museum devoted to the history of the American cocktail, even in the extraordinary ambitions of the National World War II Museum as it plans a major expansion.
Well after midnight, the street was filled with knots of people in various stages of tipsiness, laughing and talking loudly.
