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One of the tropes I always wonder about is the decanter of whiskey. I am 57 years old, and never in my life, during a personal or business conversation, has a person strode across the room to the whiskey decanter, poured one for each of us and returned with the two tumblers.
But in movies and television, it happens all the time. Most of all on "Mad Men," but before that there were soap operas where the decanter seemed to turn up everywhere except operating rooms. It's there also on Downton Abbey. And HBO's Boardwalk Empire, set in Prohibition, is one long epic poem about the necessity of whiskey -- about its scarcity and ever-presence..
Maybe I'm just attuned to it because of the theme of this show, but this past weekend I was engrossed in a novel from last year, "The Art of Fielding" and I noticed that two of the characters were whiskey users in ways that seemed freighted with meaning. So. The theory and practice of whiskey.....
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