Recently, I attended Michael Fontaine’s unusual talk on binge drinking. I describe this talk as unusual, because it was unlike any Rose Cafe I have ever attended before. We read the translation of a Latin text that described a fictitious painting in great detail. Titled “The Garden of Drunkenness,” the text started off with a description of the landscape (a garden surrounded by a field), and then moved onto the people present. The initial people described seemed to behave fairly normally. These people depicted drinking in moderation. They would drink for a bit and enjoy the festivities around them, and then they would go home. All of this occurred outside of the garden. However, the text continued with those who entered into the garden–those who did not want to stop drinking. These people were not described as people at all, but rather as various animals. Also, most of these animals are vomiting, but for the most part, it is not wine that they are vomiting (the exception is the sheep, who are “naive drunks”). Instead, the pigs are vomiting snakes, the cow are vomiting frogs, the goats are vomiting gemstones, and the bears are vomiting swords and sticks (There are other animals vomiting as well, but this list is already growing quite long). The text then ends with an explanation of what happens when the animals then leave the garden. Throughout our reading of the text in the cafe, a couple of students volunteered to draw everything that was being described. At first, I was skeptical as to why it was necessary to draw out the descriptions in the text, but once we finished reading it I realized that it was incredibly detailed, and that drawing it out was actually quite helpful.