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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (188020)	12/7/2009 4:06:26 PM
From: SmoothSail	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Any opinions on Burke? Not really. He's led a tough life and it shows. He's a heavy drinker - that has a powerful effect on anyone. Maybe as a younger man, his body could tolerate the abuse, but years of abuse are going to take its toll. There's so many famous writers who were also drinkers. I've known a couple who actually thought the drink enhanced their writing - that they were better writers because of it. Look at the suicides among them - Hemingway, Hunter Thompson, Plath, John Kennedy Toole (one of my favorites) - there's a bunch. I had one actually say to me, "Ah what a genius I had then," referring to writing while drunk.