If anyone can suggest better captions for the photos at my Great Grog post below, then I’d be pleased to hear them, and might replace my efforts with them. I keep feeling, for example, that Mike looks more to be going through a mystical experience than talking about dogs (which he did) and Kapka appears more to be overcome with emotion than talking about her collection.
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Two fascinating articles by Jim Murdoch on writers and alcohol. Part 1 looks at attitudes among writers to drink and Part 2 (which I found particularly interesting) gets down to practice itself.
I’ve not got time just this minute to say anything more, but I will in due course.
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Missing from Jim Murdoch's film list is that classic depiction of a drunken poet, 'Reuben, Reuben' (1983), with Tom Conti in the leading role.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084591/
Inexplicably *still* not available on DVD.
ABJ
I did think of it but I was pretty sure he was a teacher though I suspect that was actually Heavenly Pursuits I was thinking about.
Thanks for the mention BTW. I look forward to seeing what you have to add.
Thanks for puffing those two articles Rob; I'll be back to look at Jim's blog again - very interesting stuff. I'm not a big drinker myself, despite coming from the land of 'Go on, go on, go on.'
I've seen alcohol destroy enough people to make me wary, and I don't think it would do anything for my writing whatsoever. It's hard enough to put words and sentences together without an extra layer of remove being added to the equation.
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