<<It's interesting that it is always booze, never any
drugs. I've always read
this both as coming from the great Western tradition of
the
warrior-conqueror who celebrates his conquest with mighty
bouts of ale. The
prodigious drinking serving as part of the "larger than life"
metaphor that
build ups these characters. I also think it's the hard-boiled
flipping of
the bird to fate: I'll eat bullets, suck down gin and smoke
everything in
sight, and you'll never kill me....>>
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