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Re: Voltaire's Weird Situation with Coffee

On Oct 8, 10:08 am, Space Cowboy <netst...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Also on page 90:
> We side with Voltaire who said of coffee, "It is a poison, certainly--
> but a slow poison, for I've been drinking it these eighty-four years."
>
> Jim

Poison is a bit harsh, but for a context to have chosen a less
innocuous word.   From a forgotten Chinese book - War should be
resorted to when all else is exhausted, like a poison;- Or, alcohol,
slow suicide by poisoning.  Coffee, of course, being of a "known"
affiliation issues instigate, if not one then of fermenting
concoctions, seethed to a boil in a damning indictment issued by the
King of England (and shortly abrogated due to popular outcry. A few
pages before the intro coffee takes, off Parisian streets into cafes,
is a mention of the London circuit, which I didn't read.  Except a
nearby paragraph that, at the time dear spry Voltaire was drinking
cafe coffee, alcohol's popularity was again gaining appeal in London,
perhaps giving coffee houses a run for their money;... I daresay
within reason soddy stories of gin near epidemic proportions
circulate, though I wouldn't know their chronology).

-F