Durkheim examined religion using such examples as Pueblo Indian aboriginal tribes in Australia, and alcoholic hallucinations.
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There are, instead, moments of breathtaking strangeness and blunt emotional force : cold-blooded shootings, creepy-crawly alcoholic hallucinations, spangly dancers and nighttime streets.
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Metcalf's alcoholic hallucinations grant the writers a doorway to indulge in a bit of visual creativity, incorporating bucolic dream sequences outside the operating room as he slips into unconsciousness.
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"There's a snake in my boot ! " is an old reference to alcoholic hallucination that was commonly used during the Wild West era; the concept is akin to seeing pink elephants, a later euphemism from the early 20th century.