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Author: AgProv

May 21st 2016 at 12:31:45 PM

In the ''{{Discworld}}'', there is a god of Strong Drink and Partying, Bibulous, who is continually drunk and who has a wonderful time with lots of very appreciative nymphs and handmaidens. He never, ever, throws up or has a hangover, the usual consequence for mere humans who party too hard.  The unfortunate deity who gets the karmic feedback which would rightly belong to Bibulous is called Bilious, the ''Oh, God!'' of the Morning After. Everything on the Discworld has its equal and opposite quality. It is the fate of Bilious to get all the negative stuff connected with drinking heavily, so that bibulous does not have to. He is described as thin and pail, in a stained toga, with a laurel wreath too large for him and somewhat tatty, which has slipped over one ear. He is frequently ill, suffers from splitting headaches, cannot stand bright light, and lives in a sense of existential drea that he will ''remember'' some excruciatingly embarrasing or ill-advised thing he did on some unspecified Last Night that got him into this state in the first place. No, it isn't fair. But nothing on the Discworld is "fair"....