Heavy, Heavy, Hangover Thy Head

January, 1960

One of the most inadequate definitions in Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, Unabridged, is: "hang'-o'ver, n. The effect of a period of dissipation after the exhilaration has worn off." The understatement is devastating, for in that one word "effect" is concealed a terrible world of meaning.When you do not simply awaken, but fight to get up from bottomless black depths, when your eyelids have turned to stone and it costs you an ele...

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