in the eighth chapter of his brilliant novel nineteen eighty-four, george orwell writes about winston meeting an older man (he calles him a prole) in a bar and the man complaining about not being able to get the right amount of beer. ingsoc made the people switch from imperial to metric measurements, so beer was no longer sold by pint (british), but by litre or half-litre. the man was complaining about this, because, as he said, "a 'alf-litre ain't enough. it don't satisfy. and a 'ole litre's too much. it starts my bladder running."
i completely understand the above mentioned prole, i am the same way with coffee. one regular (9 fluid ounces) cup is not enough, but two cups are too much (for the same reason as mentioned by the prole above). for years i was in agony to find the adequate solution to my problem, and then starbucks came along and introduced me to their large (14 fluid ounces) mug. i would have been living happily ever after if there wasn't for an accident last year, during which my mug (due to it's rigidity) ended up in pieces. for a few months my agonizing continued, but then we visited vienna and i got a large mug at starbucks again. needles to say, as the attached picture accurately shows, my replacement mug was rendered unusable by brute force yesterday. what am i to do now - as there is no plan to be within 200 miles of a starbucks in the next few months?
my preciousssss
