Yesterday, having drunk too much, I was intoxicated as to pass all bounds;
but none of the rude and coarse language I used was uttered in a conscious state.
The next morning, after hearing others speak on the subject, I realised what had happened,
whereupon I was overwhelmed with confusion and ready to sink into the earth with shame.
"As far back as the 9th Century China, the 'Dunhuang Bureau of Etiquette' insisted that local officials use a letter template when sending apologies to offended dinner hosts. The guilty party would copy the template text, enter the dinner host's name, sign the letter and then deliver with head bowed. The letter was discovered, alongside thousands of other documents, in a sealed cave library in western China."
I found this on this crazy awesome website called "Letters of Note" It has on display a ton of private letters, now made available to the public from the likes of Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, and Nikola Tesla to name a few. They range from wills to irate faxes and provide endless entertainment for someone stuck at work for 10 hours (namely me). Check it out. See the internet proves again to be endlessly entertaining.
And now we know that even way back in dynastic China they got so drunk they forgot who they were.
Back to looking up pictures of polar bears and the arctic... yes that's my job. -N
