Comments on: Professional ironists love drug history

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 04:01:42 +0000

In Enthusiasm Ronald Knox called John Wesley's habit of writing sermons on horseback as he rode from one town to another the case against writing on horseback. Or something about as snippy. But Methodism caught on. If I was writing on a deadline, I'd try whatever got the word count done acceptably well and acceptably written. Dick needed money bad. Auden's every poem was not great. Sartre might as well have had imaginary crabs ghost half his page counts. Come Muse, sing to me, or I will get comfortably numb and take my chances.

By: Faze

Faze — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 02:05:37 +0000

Sartre hallucinated mightily, claiming, at one point in his life, to have been continually accompanied by three or four giant crabs, whom he got used to greeting each morning, and who followed him from room to room. He said the crabs were hallucinations caused by his drug use, but I suspect they were far worse. Sartre was the peg holding the 1950s and 60s intellectual tent down on the hard-left, Marxist-Leninist side.

By: Gaikokumaniakku

Gaikokumaniakku — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 21:22:20 +0000

If this is a thread about speed freaks, let’s not forget Ayn Rand. She was not able to write — or function — without large doses of speed.