Goines On: “A day without wine is like....”

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Goines considered himself to be a realist – there is no personal god, life is mostly sad – so he was taken aback by what happened the morning he glanced at an ad in the New York Times online. Was he not a realist after all, but rather an idealist?
    The shirt on the woman in the ad had a stenciled declaration beginning, “A day without wine is like....” And from the next two lines, Goines’ glancing eyes caught only the word “idea.”
    What happened then is what got to him, made him question whether he might not be exclusively a realist but an idealist as well – despite no god, despite sadness....
    He instantly, automatically read the next two lines as saying:

        A DAY WITHOUT
        A NEW IDEA

For there is yet the hope we will have a new idea.
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