Posted on 07/29/2009 7:51:59 AM PDT by AreaMan
Faulkner wrote lots of good stuff after age 40.
THAT’S IT!!!! THAT’S IT!!!! THAT’S IIITTTTTT!!!!!!! I have always wanted to write, and suffer from keyboard fright, but I just learned a lesson...GET DRUNK AND WRITE!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!YES!!!!!YES!!!!!!!
Hey, I just post the piece...didn't write it.
Arguing about something like that is like arguing what flavors of ice cream.
They just need to leave the hooch alone and drink absinthe instead. It’s not called the Green Muse (or Green fairy) for nothing.
For those that haven’t tried it yet, it’s now legal in the U.S. Pour some in a glass and drizzle some ice water over a sugar cube through a slotted spoon. When the color changes, it’s ready for drinking. Yum!
We really, really need a second volume of Paul Johnson's The Intellectuals.
Stephen King says he cannot remember writing Cujo, he was so loaded;
I can believe that. Reading Cujo is like listening to a drunk in a bar telling a seemingly endless (literally) shaggy-dog story. It's overwritten by at least half its length.
Doesn’t mean he’s arguing with you. If you post an article other freepers will address almost all general comments to you by default (in fact, they don’t have a choice unless they delete your screen name when posting) but they aren’t directing them at you personally.
You are being facetious of course? Aren’t you?!!!????
My favorite novelist, who beats them all hands down, is John O’Hara.
BUtterfield 8 (It’s a phone number; it’s spelled correctly)
Appointment in Samara
Hope of Heaven
Many have been made and re-made into movies. Liz Taylor in BUtterfield 8? An absolute STUNNER. Timeless classics.
http://www.coalregion.com/Amazon/ohara.html
Whether O’Hara was a big old drunk or not, I do not know; but most of his characters were...and with good reason, LOL!
You wrote:
“We really, really need a second volume of Paul Johnson’s The Intellectuals.”
Yes, we do!!! I’ll get working on that right now. Where’s my scotch?
Absinthe is just another flavor of hootch. They never proved the thujone extract does anything and at any rate by law it’s kept low.
Beware, most of the “absinthe” sold to the hipsters is just green-colored rotgut with a little anise extract.
At least it’s not like the cheap stuff back in the olden days which was rotgut with a little anise extract colored with COPPER SULFATE.
Oh brother. This is one of those rare threads that to respond at all would require a good sized thesis. Not today, thanks.
Poe. Died drunk and in the gutter - in BALTIMORE!
Can’t stand King...he writes for 12 year olds.
Doesnt mean hes arguing with you. If you post an article other freepers will address almost all general comments to you by default.To: BorgesHey, I just post the piece...didn't write it.Faulkner wrote lots of good stuff after age 40.
Arguing about something like that is like arguing what flavors of ice cream.
That's an idiosyncrasy of the FR format. I personally try to evade that problem by using <tt> instead of <i> to indicate a quotation of the article rather than a quotation of a reply.(I also use <blockquote> in an effort to help make quotations from various sources stand out from each other - but that's just me).
I’ll drink to that!
Now...why does that statement sound so familiar to me? Hmmm....I think it was a recent news story involving the local police and someone....someone who thought his name carried weight. Now who was that?
I don’t think Asimov drank while writing. I consider him a great writer.
They’re just looking for an excuse.
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