“Where Danny went, a magnificent madness followed. It is passionately averred in Tortilla Flat that Danny alone drank 3 gallons of wine. It must be remembered, however, that Danny is now a god. In a few years it may be thirty gallons. In twenty years it may be plainly remembered that the clouds flamed and spelled DANNY in tremendous letters; that the moon dripped blood; that the wolf of the world bayed prophetically from the mountains of the Milky Way.”
– From Chapter XVI of Tortilla Flat,
by John Steinbeck (1935)