Had some gin

Reading 1984, it comes up again and again —the name alone was enough to spark curiosity

Pungent, invasive, almost unbearable —you can only gulp it down like medicine

Forty-three degrees burning at every moment, reminding you exactly where it is right now, face flushing, heating up, even wanting to tear up

The burning fades quickly, and now the world looks a bit easier, a bit more cheerful. Gradually I can smell it —musky, sharp and cool, and so intensely alcoholic you’d swear it was disinfectant ethanol

Mood soaring, but in a flash I thought of that devastating ending of 1984, savoring it over and over

In the end, I watched the film adaptation of 1984 together with gin

Happy National Day[^1] (lol)[^2]

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Footnotes

[^1]: National Day (国庆) —Chinese National Day, celebrated on October 1st, marking the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
[^2]: The irony of celebrating National Day while drinking Victory Gin —in Orwell’s 1984, Victory Gin is the cheap, harsh liquor the Party provides to the populace of Oceania. It symbolizes the bleak, controlled existence under totalitarian rule: a substance that dulls rather than pleasures, offered as a perverse “reward” by the very system that oppresses its people. Reading 1984 and drinking gin on China’s National Day carries an unmistakable layer of dark humor.