Best Drinking Scenes In Books (PHOTOS)

Getting Slizzard: HuffPost Readers Pick Best Drinking Scenes In Literature (PHOTOS)

In "Macbeth," Macduff famously asks, "What three things does drink especially provoke?" To which the porter replies, "Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes. It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery. It makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him."

There are countless drinking scenes in literature. We asked you for your favorite scenes and here's what you've said so far.

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"The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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