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That bout has no winner; they'd both go rolling over the cliffside.
Yes, but one deliberately and the other on account of the gin.
Exactly my thoughts.
a) It was a joke
b) Are you actually defending his self-destructive lifestyle?
c) If I could bang out year after year novels the quality of Fleming's while on the sauce, I'd be hitting the gin just as hard
Might have even done some of his best writing. We don't know.
Pretty sure that was a frivolous comment, but if today is any indication, I don't know anymore.
Amazingly, some writers are capable of producing fully coherent and even quite quality writing while severely intoxicated. How this works, I don't know. I've never tried it. I would never want to. Stephen King says he genuinely has no recollection of any part of the process of writing Cujo because he was stoned drunk the entire period. He says that's something he deeply regrets. I'm sure Cujo was not a better book because King was intoxicated while writing it, just as I'm sure none of Fleming's Bonds were improved by his level of gin intake. A dollop of liquor can help free the mind, true, but there is a limit. Passing into alcoholism territory isn't like reaching some kind of literary nirvana.
I think imbibing would likely take away the reluctance or anxiety the writer would have over drafting a story if they had a clearer head, allowing them to cut through their mind's obstacles to just write something. Speaking as a writer, I wouldn't follow this method, but as a life-long teetotaler, that's quite obvious.
Yes, a glass of wine to take the edge off would help, but not a pile of crumpled beer cans growing under your desk.
(And you're right, Mendes's comment might have been frivolous. Hadn't read it that way. Hard to tell without emoticons—God bless 'em, they're good for something after all.)
As this is the free discussion thread, you write any fiction, @0BradyM0Bondfanatic?
I've written quite a few things, yes, short stories and much longer, as well as a lot of film analysis and thought pieces of the sort (I'm doing analysis for all the Bond films on a 007 blog right now). I studied writing in college, and had to write all sort of things for assignments, including a novel attempt for a graduate dissertation. I've written two large mysteries, some short stories, one of which got published, and a few memoir-styled pieces where I wrote about some more personal things, like my grandfather's fight with Alzheimer's, with a lot of other stuff thrown in. I had quite a varied study.
(And I don't think the romanticism of the drunken writer is in vogue these days, fortunately, though a misguided few may think otherwise and conduct themselves accordingly.)
Well there's a random one, but I agree.
Another random thought, transmission problems are awful, especially the $1300 it's going to cost me to fix. ~X(
That's a tempting thought sometimes. I keep tossing back and forth between the idea of fixing it or just getting a different car. There's not many good options in my ~$2500 price range, so I guess I'm getting it fixed. I'm not looking forward to the bill for 10 hours of labor (my Volvo requires having the sub-frame dropped to gain access).
As long as I don't get salmonella :))
Yeah, that's what has been happening. First it was a $450 radiator, then a $580 electronic throttle body, then my side-view mirror glass falling out on the freeway, and now this.
Like mine. The ashtray in my Rolls Royce was full yesterday, so I pushed it in the ditch. New car it is, then.
I hope you were in Paris when you ditched it. That seems to be the go to place to abandon them. ;)