In Vino Veritas: Difference between revisions

* [[Terry Pratchett]] has fun with this several times in ''[[Discworld]]'':

** In ''[[The Last Continent]]'', the cowardly and cynical Rincewind turns into a boisterous optimist after a few Ecksian beers.

** ''[[Carpe Jugulum]]'' has timid [[Non-Action Guy|Non Action King]] Verence transforming into [[The Berserker]] after having a single sample of the Nac Mac Feegles' "brose," which is [[Gargle Blaster|specifically designed to do just that]]. These are the fairies that consider Nanny Ogg's "sui-cider" a delicacy, after all. It's also lampshaded that giving him fifty times the brose, just because he's bigger, probably wasn't the best idea.

** Subverted with Lord Vetinari. In ''[[Unseen Academicals]]'' he gets stone drunk. It's mentioned that men twice his size with a reputation for being able to hold their drink had been hauled home in wheelbarrows, but despite having drank just as much as they had the only noticeable difference in Vetinari's behaviorbehaviour is that he's a bit more talkative than usual, and it's a bit harder the next day for him to do the crosswords in the morning paper. Apparently, he's very good at acting sober. Or very, very Knurd. However, that's not really his only reaction. In one part of that scene, he seems a lot more sad and philosophical than usual, giving a short, depressing monologue on the ubiquity of evil and staring into his drink. He acts quite normally otherwise, though.