Strangely enough, I read this during the course of yesterday morning.
To me it does speak of ones who really love the stuff, and so much they must run after it. Judge for yourself.
Those who linger over wine,
those who go looking for mixed wine.
31Don’t gaze at wine because it is red,
when it gleams in the cup
and goes down smoothly.
32In the end it bites like a snake
and stings like a viper.
33Your eyes will see strange things,
and you will say absurd things. #
Or will speak perversities or inverted things
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34You’ll be like someone sleeping out at sea
or lying down on the top of a ship’s mast.
35“They struck me, but
I feel no pain!
They beat me, but I didn’t know it!
When will I wake up?
I’ll look for another drink.”