To: tallhappy
I can name a lot of great authors who were drunks.
Two stoners come to mind. Keasey and Hunter. (flames will be ignored, unless you want to argue that Hunter was a drunk not a stoner)
No puritans come to mind.
20 posted on
07/25/2005 5:28:51 PM PDT by
Dinsdale
To: Dinsdale
Most great authors were drunks.
24 posted on
07/25/2005 5:31:55 PM PDT by
tallhappy
(Juntos Podemos!)
To: Dinsdale
"I can name a lot of great authors who were drunks.
Two stoners come to mind. Keasey and Hunter. (flames will be ignored, unless you want to argue that Hunter was a drunk not a stoner)
No puritans come to mind."
William Shakespeare
Herman Melville
Charles Dickens
The authors of the books of the Bible
These are just a few off the top of my head. I take it that we're discussing fictional writers only. If we were to include nonfiction writers, then the list would have to grow tremendously. I mean, can you imagine reading a nonfiction book written by a pothead (I am of course talking about potheads, not someone who tried dope once) about physics? Would you really trust the advice given in a book of chemistry that was written while someone was high? I think people often confuse hallucination with creativity. There is a difference between the two.
32 posted on
07/25/2005 5:58:11 PM PDT by
dbehsman
(NRA Life member and loving every minute of it!)
To: Dinsdale
No puritans come to mind. John Winthrop, though he was more of a diarist than an author. Nathaniel Hawthorne was descended from Puritans, but for all we know, he might have been an opium eater.
To: Dinsdale
No puritans come to mind John Bunyan comes to mind.
98 posted on
07/27/2005 10:53:12 AM PDT by
Bear_Slayer
(DOC - 81mm Mortars, Wpns Co. 2/3 KMCAS 86-89)
To: Dinsdale
No puritans come to mind. John Milton?
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