Cocktail Nation features "various texts on the subject of Alcohol" -- from ALN NT2
"There's a bar in Hollywood where, when the jukebox plays Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire, the bartender pours Everclear along the raised, semicircular counter in front of him and sets it ablaze. A literary mind might consider the entertainment an allegory - equating the seedy, alcohol-fueled and libido-crazed bar scene with one of the seven circles of hell. After you've had a couple cocktails, though, you just think it looks cool.
Cocktail Nation looks at drinking culture from both perspectives." -- from Cocktail Nation, Introduction