sipping from my glass , i then go to the toiletof course i have urinated at other unrecorded junctures of assembling these notes of a treatise , an article , something , nothing , although rarely with such precipitous urgency , which in this case is induced by thai whiskey that , after washing my hands , of course , has necessitated the procurement of deciduous ice cubes to plunk into my glass and more liquid to soak the reef , further elongating the interruption of the previous chapter , creating a new one .