/lit/ - Literature

what did this man drink, how do i into like him

Why are so many writers alcoholics?

Why is it an occupational hazard?

>Start up short story collection
>Feel like it doesn't make sense to leave off in the middle of a story
>Now I have to time my reading around where I need to leave off instead of just marking wherever I happen to stop
>Get through it far slower than the average novel
Who else?

>"Was that really him?" "Aye, that was Moby-Dick; or The Whale."

When reading in a language you're weak in, is it better to stop and look up each individual word or to read it in whole despite only getting 30% of it?

Write drunk, edit sober

Of those I've read:

The Sun Also Rises > For Whom the Bell Tolls > In Our Time > The Old Man and the Sea > Across the River and Into the Trees > A Moveable Feast > various short stories > Green Hills of Africa > A Farewell to Arms > Garden of Eden

>tfw balding
>tfw no great writers were bald
Should I give up completely?

>look at my bookshelf
>realize it's a random disparate collection of "classics" wide uncurated and impersonal like a public library
>realize I actually have no taste in literature
Do you folk know my feel?

So how do they write drunk? I'm on a come down buzz and I can hardly get a coherent four line poem down.