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# Thursday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/38438/
- Published: 2015-11-12T06:56:57.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-12T06:56:57.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![Kingsley_Amis](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Kingsley_Amis-196x300.jpg)

I enjoy works that impart broader truths in the context of a narrower subject. A great example from Kingsley Amis' *Everyday Drinking*:

> Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naïve–or worse.

Amen to that. Obsession with the authentic is like an obsession to be humble. It slashes itself off at the knees.

Aye, the ankles.