¶ Fuller. R.B: On Drinking Liquor
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Q. “Is it true that you used to drink? Why did you do it?”
RBF: "In the 1930s when I had that great responsibility of exploring our highest scientific capabilities… when I had the burden of proving that politics just might be invalid. I had to regard myself as the custodian–but not the proprietor of the rules of Universe, and not just our little local rules called politics.
“I did not want to be a leader, playing the political game. But this was in the depths of the depression when I sometimes got a decent meal only every two or three days and when some of them in the streets didn’t get that much. And I found that people listening to my ideas started treating me as a messiah, as a kind of guru–and I didn’t want that so I deliberately took to drink and when the people saw me stumbling out of bars or coming out of a brothel and things like that, well I can tell you that it shook off all those disciples all right.”
