When next he came to me he was drunk-royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pupils were dilated, his words tumbled over each other, and he wrapped himself in quotations-as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors. (Rudyard Kipling)

When next he came to me he was drunk-royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pupils were dilated, his words tumbled over each other, and he wrapped himself in quotations-as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

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