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Posted to community@apache.org by Rich Bowen <rb...@omniti.com> on 2009/10/12 14:59:34 UTC
Arrack
At the risk of being way off topic ... well, I suppose it's all about
Apache community, hmm?
Hey, can one of you Sri Lankan gentlemen who is coming to ApacheCon
bring me a bottle of Arrack? I'd be glad to compensate you for your
cost and trouble, and buy you a couple drinks in Oakland. I've spoken
to my wife glowingly of the evening in Kitulgala when we drank Arrack
in the coal-black darkness, lit only by the gentle glow of cell
phones, with the roar of the river so loud we had to shout to be
heard, and, well, she wants to try some.
Arrack in Kitulgala
October 12, 2009
As the old saying
doesn’t go, but should,
experience is the best seasoning.
One can’t expect arrack to taste the same
in a quiet, well lit parlor
as it did in the coal-black night,
lit only by a few stars
and the gently glowing cell phones
of a dozen new friends,
with the roar of the unseen river
drowning all but shouted conversation.
Nor will стандарт remain the same
as one gets farther and farther
from Arbatskaya, chill the throat
as it did in the garishly lit,
painfully loud bar, football blaring
from ten different screens,
the men drinking while the women
wept at the Holy Friday service.
Do visitors to the Bluegrass
sit at home, drinking Ale 8 and Kentucky Ale,
shake their heads deprecatingly,
say, sorrowfully, "it just doesn’t taste the same
as it did in Lexington."