More coffee, please!

Why I'm not giving up coffee as a New Year's resolution:

From that moment on, everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

From “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee” by Honore de Balzac

Read the whole piece here.

(And a kaffe latte med soya melk for Eva-Mari, please)