[Snickersnee]

Paul Johnson's Intellectuals has a chapter on Hemingway that's worth the price of the book. In it is a list of the injuries sustained by Hemingway while drunk -- it is absolutely astonishing. In one instance, he was sitting on the can when he mistook the pull-cord for the skylight for the toilet-chain; when it didn't flush, he yanked all the harder, eventually bringing the 500-lb skylight, frame, panes and all, down on him as he sat there. And then there were the MVAs...!

[ProfessorGage]

I had wanted to read that book. Just put it on hold at the library.