I wonder if other writers have this problem

[incandescens]

Yesterday -- and I would have posted it then, but livejournal seemed to be having one of its little moments -- was our work Christmas dinner. So I was out at a nice-ish restaurant, and there was good food, and there was wine.

And as one does (well, as I do, I can hardly speak for other people who don't need regular infusions of printed matter) I picked up the drinks menu and was reading through it in an odd moment.

There are so many cocktails. Now I'm not planning on turning into an alcoholic, and indeed I hope not to turn into an alcoholic, but when I'm reading lists of all the intriguing ingredients and names, I just find cocktails fascinating. (Then again, I hardly ever have them, which may be a factor.)

I have a sudden urge to put a character into the Library story who is an expert on cocktails, or at least an enthusiast about them. The problem is which character. And I suppose this urge may pass. But at the moment I'm imagining a dragon, or possibly a fae, with a cocktail shaker.

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Lin said, "You know, things could be worse!" She ignored the glares that descended on her like fiery meteors. "Think what an opportunity this presents us for reconciliation and understanding! A chance for two bitter, angry, life-long, pig-headed enemies to work together for a common cause!" She beamed. "Isn't that nice?"

"Nice?" hissed Lyle.

"Well," she went on, "it's far better that you work together out of your common desire for reconciliation and understanding than that I bang your heads together until you cry."

They considered this. "You are a traitor to your kind and will die in your own pitiful loneliness," replied Moncorvo.

"You're a bit odd, miss," admitted Lyle.

"See! The two of you practically agreed there!"

-- The Doomsday Machine, Catherine Webb

Comments

[archangelbeth]

It is only reasonable to think these things, say I!

[incandescens]

Oh good. :) Thank you!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Oh a dragon, yes. A poet bedazzled by all these names, and the discovery that they come in the most intriguing colours. Though I admit that does sound more fae-like.

[incandescens]

The fae would probably be all enthusiastic about it, seeing himself as a cocktail connoisseur.

A dragon might have been more experimental about it, and have had a phase of trying some out while, as you say, bedazzled by the pretty names/colours/ideas. But the phase might not have lasted.

[vincentursus.livejournal.com]

I scarcely write more than a drabble now and then and I have previously experienced the regret that it would be unfeasible to pick up an encyclopedic knowledge of mixed drinks.

[incandescens]

It is a pity that such knowledge is not easier to pick up. Or cheaper.