I DRANK MY FIRST COCKTAIL WHEN I WAS SIX, in the mid-twentieth century, when martinis were sacramental and the cocktail hour, or the "violet hour," as Ian Fleming calls it in one of the James Bond novels, was a moment of prayer, poised like a thin chilled glass to the lips between the mortal pressures of the day and the infinity of night.
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Shaken and Stirred: Through the Martini Glass and Other Drinking Adventures
October 26, 2004, Collins
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