Keeping your eye on the drink

At the age of 42, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of Elle magazine, had a stroke and was left with only the use of one eye. And yet this is how he saw the world until the day he finally died:

Not bad huh? He could have curled up and died; well actually he couldn't have - he was completely, totally, irretrievably paralyzed - and so he couldn't even choose to die. But still the drink remained in him. And not only that but the journalist in him, the writer, despite the titanic effort, still had to write a book about his world, the world. He composed the book with one eye - blinking where he used to compose with ten fingers. He left us with The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: a beautiful book, a beautiful film. One note about the film: there is not an ugly woman in it. His wives, the nurses, the therapists are all stunningly beautiful French women. This fact alone makes the film well worth drinking.