In vino veritas

Since the phrase in the title is rather oblique and well known, it seems worth exploring, not least because Latin is dead these days ... albeit useful to learn languages derived from it ... not least French, Spanish and Portuguese in which your blogger is able and willing to greet locals, request food, coffee and a bed for the night ... this helps endear the locals to us Brits, notorious for our insistence on them speaking their language in our variation of English ... Yanks meanwhile take the prize, whilst mangling the rich inheritance, simplifying its anomalies and persisting in offering English (US) virtually ... still, we can't complain, since the Great British Empire spread the King's English throughout the world whilst civilising the others and suppressing their languages ... and for Gallic speakers from Britain please note the suppression of your languages is noted including that wonderful, unsayable place name in Wales, Llanfair ... anyway, the USA usurped our Empire for a while and still carries on as if it owns the world, whilst wiser heads learn Chinese and Russian, just in case ...

Anyway, to say that the Truth emerges from the wine has different levels ... if referring to the effect of alcohol consumption we observe that it relaxes the mind and reveals the personality, otherwise stuck in cultural roles ... let's take the strict, stuffy, sensible, responsible person who starts wanting to hug everyone at the party and tell them he loves them ... or, by contrast, the holier than thou one who loves Jesus and all his flock until he gets stuck into the communion wine and reveals his dark side ... perhaps dementia plays a similar role for the elder, having spent a lifetime in a subservient position in a family, breaking out and lashing out before being cast out into a Care Home ... and so on ... other theories say that vino might stand for other plants and fruits with psychotropic effects which release the mind from current limitations and reveal other worlds with deeper Truths. .. who knows?

Alcohol in excess, as is well known to many, destroys many relationships,  whilst in moderation some claim a glass of red most days counts as one of the daily doses of fruit and veg recommended by public health experts ... however, adherents of religions like Islam are forbidden to drink the fruity dose at all ... it's said some sheikhs are known to claim exemptions, but that's quite normal for rich folks to have one rule for them and another for the rest of us ... as is also well known Prohibition in the U.S. was not a success and before that the Methodists banned booze as well as gambling, though such rules are now relaxed, since it's hard enough finding members for any religion as churches and chapels close for lack of faithful folks ...

Well that's in vino veritas laid out for inspection dear readers, now back to earwaxing and very weird weekend dreams!