So why doesn't he just take some vodka with him?
I'm usually not the one to find plot holes, but this bugs me:
Drinking vodka completely calms down his whole heart trouble-hallucination thing. After maybe the 2nd or 3rd time he gets the nosebleeding, can't go on and almost dies, it doesn't occur to him to simply BRING SOME DAME VODKA ALONG with him?
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