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Post by oh oooh on Aug 24, 2023 13:34:41 GMT
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 24, 2023 14:15:27 GMT
Yeah I'm very familiar with this clip. It's about two or three years before his death. He was a chronic alcoholic by this stage although he still managed a few witticisms.
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Post by rayge on Aug 24, 2023 14:39:24 GMT
Yeah I'm very familiar with this clip. It's about two or three years before his death. He was a chronic alcoholic by this stage although he still managed a few witticisms. Me too. Both his parents were drunks, too. He should have stuck to 'tea'
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 24, 2023 14:57:05 GMT
Yeah I'm very familiar with this clip. It's about two or three years before his death. He was a chronic alcoholic by this stage although he still managed a few witticisms. Me too. Both his parents were drunks, too. He should have stuck to 'tea'
He was always a heavy drinker, but he got really bad after the publication of 'On The Road' in 1957. He couldn't handle the attention it brought him. |
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Post by rayge on Aug 24, 2023 19:59:42 GMT
Me too. Both his parents were drunks, too. He should have stuck to 'tea'
He was always a heavy drinker, but he got really bad after the publication of 'On The Road' in 1957. He couldn't handle the attention it brought him. Yeah, that's right. I've read several biographies, as well as all of his books - the ones published before 1980, anyway. My take was that that pushed him over the edge,but he was always heading that way. There's a saying in AA that you don't have to be Irish or Scottish to be a drunk, but it helps. There's lots of anecdotal evidence about a 'Celtic gene' that predisposes people to alcoholism - and of course Ti Jean was convinced that his own lineage, his name, was Breton.
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