[lit-ideas] Writing while drinking
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:34:53 -0400
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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