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Quote #7
Some of the liquor coursed refreshingly down his chin and under his shirt-collar. The bottle had been about three-quarters full when he started and was about three-quarters empty when he stopped. He thumped and clinked it back into position, wiped his mouth on the sideboard runner, and, feeling really splendid, gained his bedroom without opposition. (5.15)
Here's Jim as a sloppy drunk breaking into the Welch's liquor cabinet, presented with humor but not much sympathy.
Quote #8
A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad. (6.1)
In painfully descriptive (and accurate) terms, Kingsley Amis shows us just how brutal it feels to wake up from a night of heavy drinking. BTW, the British newspaper The Guardian called this the best hangover scene in all of fiction.
Quote #9
Gore Urquhart nodded and produced a slim but substantial flask from his ill-fitting clothes. "Have a swig." (21.89)
Just before his lecture, Gore-Urquhart offers him some more alcohol. Gore-Urquhart probably already knows that Jim is drunk. He might actually be trying to make Jim drunker so that his public lecture will be entertaining. After all, the man already knows at this point that he's going to hire Jim for a pretty sweet job. H might figure there's no harm in helping Jim's academic career go out with a bang.