<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishMwanzoni mwa makala yake, ambayo ameita Kukimbia Mwalimu Mkuu ambaye Hakuwa, mwandishi anatukumbusha kwamba kulikuwa na wakati ambapo alijitolea kwa masomo ya Picasso, jinsi ufunuo wa kitaaluma wa kawaida ulivyomfanya kukimbia kwenda kwenye baa ya karibu kunywa vodka yangu ya kwanza kwenye miamba.  <response>: Early in his article--which he has called Escaping The Great Master That Never Was--the author reminds us that there was a time when he devoted himself to Picasso studies, how the most trivial academic revelation once caused him to run off to a nearby bar to drink my very first vodka on the rocks. 