And so it goes on, a carousel of introductions and handshakes and backslaps and musky perfumes and ambassador's wives, ringing laughter like icecubes, gin and insincerity... He feels ghostly and distant again. He wants to laugh, but he feels too sad because the wine is wrong. It's white wine. He doesn't like white wine. He only likes red wine.
[Jaspers concentrates, and suddenly he is holding a glass of red wine. He smiles.]
A cabinet minister is telling a story about a nun and a rhesus monkey. The brittle shrieks of distant hostesses splinter against the smoke-blue glassiness of everything. A crooked man is smiling a crooked smile.
[Jaspers concentrates, and suddenly he is holding a glass of red wine. He smiles.]
A cabinet minister is telling a story about a nun and a rhesus monkey. The brittle shrieks of distant hostesses splinter against the smoke-blue glassiness of everything. A crooked man is smiling a crooked smile.
"I'm the fine mastermind of my gruesome hobbies
Slip through Chianti as I chew a body"
Slip through Chianti as I chew a body"
— Hannibal Lecter, Freshy Kanal's Rap Battle!, "Hannibal Lecter vs. Leatherface"
Emperor Rimmer: Enough of this heresy. At the stroke of dawn, take them out and kill them. And when you've killed them, burn the bodies, then bring me the cold ashes on a silver plate with a glass of chilled sancerre.
The Cat: This guy's an animal. Doesn't he know it's red wine with cold ashes?
The Cat: This guy's an animal. Doesn't he know it's red wine with cold ashes?
— Red Dwarf, "Rimmerworld"
Hardestadt: Sweet Tyr, Sieg, you think you have everyone fooled. Maybe even yourself. But you're not fooling me.
Siegfried: What do you mean?
Hardestadt: For one thing? If you actually put some thought or real research into this refined gentleman act you've got going on or bothered to actually educate yourself? You'd be sipping that wine. You don't just quaff one of the rarest, most expensive wines on the planet in one go. Also, you're holding it by the bowl, not the stem. The heat from your hand will transfer to it and warm it up too much.
Siegfried: What do you mean?
Hardestadt: For one thing? If you actually put some thought or real research into this refined gentleman act you've got going on or bothered to actually educate yourself? You'd be sipping that wine. You don't just quaff one of the rarest, most expensive wines on the planet in one go. Also, you're holding it by the bowl, not the stem. The heat from your hand will transfer to it and warm it up too much.
