What Brilliant Minds Need

The bottle of beer looks so real, as if it is coming out of the trailer, isn't it? I don't know what it reminds you of but it makes me think of a famous Chinese kung fu novelist, Gu Lung and an American writer who invented the modern-horror genre, Edgar Allen Poe. The former who wrote 69 kungfu novels including The Eleventh Son, died at 48 while the latter, who gave the world the horrifying Fall of the House of Usher, died at 40. Both are alcoholics. Gu Lung died depressed and dejected, of cirrhosis; while Edgar Allen Poe who died in hospital, had been found drunk and unconscious on a Baltimore street. Both were said to be brilliant writers with brilliant minds but here, this bottle of beer that juts out of the trailer perhaps, teases: minds, even though brilliant, need to consider simple precepts like the fifth Buddhist precept :
Surā-meraya-majja-pamādahānā veramaī sikkhāpada samādiyāmi
I undertake the training rule to abstain from drinks [and drugs] that cause heedlessness.