This Man’s Life: Whiskey, you’re not the devil, says the author after a night in Berlin

‘Do you know where the wicked go after death?’ wrote Charlotte Bronte in Jane Eyre. ‘They go to hell,’ was my ready and orthodox answer. ‘And what is hell? Can you tell me that?’ ‘A pit full of fire.’ ‘And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?’
‘No, sir.’
‘What must you do to avoid it?’
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