...a dingy east-side gin mill frequented by the lowest, half-spastic, scum-eating, shit-spittled, pablum-prattling, wack-assed, tinder-kindling, cheese-odored, foot-fungi'd, scab-encrusted, politically unreliable, no-voting dregs of society, where the rotgut served produced the desired effect, and might not render one blind, semi-retarded or brain dead, so long as one...