How many slumbers are rum or other spirit-sodden, giving the sleeper refuge from the morning’s hangover? Â Apologies to all sober Barbadians.
‘… jolting the rum-sodden slumbers of the Barbadians …’
Source: Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese, introduction by Michael Gorra, New York: New York Review of Books, 2006 (1958), p. 146
