true talent can't be drunk away
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Toronto, 2003.06.10
I got some photos back from the party I attended on the weekend. Though my scanner wasn't up for the job of scanning these night-time slide shots, I found the slides themselves to be rather good. This despite the fact that while I was taking the photos I was extremely drunk.
I was explaining this phenomenon to my wise Ukrainian colleague Yuri. He told me that in Russian there's a saying; "true talent can't be drunk away". It's a delightful thought, but I think I just got lucky. Though I suppose the Russians would know!