from Passionate Journey by Frans Masereel

To describe what these two New Year’s comrades performed and set about down in the village in the course of this night — which public houses they visited, how many glasses they emptied, in what sorts of conversations they engaged one another — would be to consign things that are important and essential to the realm of the unimportant and insignificant. They spoke of such things as colleagues are wont to speak of, and they behaved the way people tend to on New Year’s Eve, in other words, they devoted themselves to the pursuit of a gradual but all the more pleasurable and purposeful inebriation.

— Robert Walser