Barley is one of the chief ingredients in Beer and Whiskey. The British reformers who attacked it forgot that it is also a chief part of Bread.
In the personification of the struggles over alcohol, John Barleycorn was Beer and Whiskey. In the folk song, revived by some band in the 1960s, there is the central lyric:
"And these three men, they made a solemn vow
John Barleycorn must die."
Is this now the central aim of AA? After all, it is said that if alcohol were just discovered today, it would be outlawed. I wonder about Rambler, going against the great social lubricant of today. How to do it? Outdoor climates like Southern California make it relatively easy by providing alternatives to bars and pubs and the like, but there is still the temptation to supplement the high one gets from the relatively unobstructed freedom of the West.
I can imagine being on the beach at Santa Monica, watching the sun set over Malibu. What could be better than a cool one to ice the day? Or should you just plunge yourself into the Pacific?
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