[lit-ideas] Re: Writing while drinking
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:26:19 -0400
Left brain/right brain maybe? Artists and painters are in the limelight,
so their drinking and swaggering is more noticeable than 'regular' people.
I guess professional athletes are sensible too, since they're on drugs a
lot. Painting didn't help Vincent Van Gogh live longer. Actually, for
longevity, I understand music conductors are in the forefront. All that
aerobic upper arm movement is credited (seriously), as, perhaps, the
accolades they receive. The accolades is in keeping with Academy Award
winners who also apparently live longer on average than non-winners.
Speaking of (trolley car) conductors, there's a famous study, one of the
granddaddies, that trolley car conductors had significantly fewer heart
attacks than their sedentary counterparts, the drivers. It was the first
time that exercise and health were officially correlated. Seems hard to
imagine there was a first time.
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 10/17/2006 10:34:37 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Writing while drinking
>
> Andy: proves that drinkers like to drink.
>
>
> There's an entire chapter on this in Walker Percy's _Lost in
> the Cosmos: the last self-help book_.
>
> It's a very good book, and gives insights into many of
> Percy's novels.
>
> In very small part, he wrote: writers are in the front line
> of sensibility, like the canaries miners take down in the
> shafts to test the air. Also, writers are the "Protestants"
> of art, with nothing but their Scripto pencils and
> Blue-Horse tablets; painters are the "Catholics," with
> concrete intermediaries, clay, paint, models, fruit,
> landscape, etc. This is why writers drink more and painters
> live longer.
>
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