16th may 2004
"Here's to General Augustus Mellon, Flower of Southern Chivalry and Lion of the Battlefield!" Lee Mellon said, taking the cap off four pounds of muscatel.
We drank the four pounds of muscatel in the Ina Coolbrith Park, looking down Vallejo Street to San Francisco Bay and how the sunny morning was upon it and a barge of railroad cars going across to Marin County.
"What a warrior", Lee Mellon said, putting the last 1/3 ounce of muscatel, "the corner", into his mouth.
- Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General at Big Sur