Charles Baudelaire and Charles Bukowski share much more than initials. The hated paternal authority, the love of German music, poetry, and a certain taste for drunkenness. If there is one author who has written on the subject, it is Bukowski. His poetry, his novels, his correspondence all contain a few grams of alcohol.

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Do you remember the Trojan War? This war which pitted the great Greek kings against the Trojans is the subject of Homer's Iliad, which recounts the last few days of ten years of fiery struggles at the foot of the Trojan walls. But it's not just a huge battle song, it's an ode to the most divine of nectars! Like many authors of antiquity, Homer sang of wine. His poetry is so powerful and beautiful that it still throbs in our ears.

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