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he wouldn't have seen a bat if he'd been drinking


The hallucinations related to Delirium Tremens occur when a heavy drinker is sober, not when he's drunk. (That's why Beetle Guy is having such a hard time in the hospital.) The quart of rye Don just polished off actually would have prevented him from hallucinating.

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You are exactly right. I wonder why no one else ever pointed that out. I'm a nurse and I know whereof I speak.

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