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To: Neocon who wrote (149632)5/30/2001 1:55:10 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Is it just an urban legend or is it true that more of the most revered writers were alcoholics than the general population?

Yeah, there is a weird modern notion that creativity and instability are related.



To: Neocon who wrote (149632)5/30/2001 2:02:14 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Supporting your contention, there is Charles Ives - Insurance salesmen and probably the most original composer of his day. You could say that being able to support himself in business gave him total freedom to write only what pleased him, damn the critics and patrons.

T.S. Eliot worked for a bank, and later a publishing house, became an Anglo- Catholic, and was notable as a cultural conservative......


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