Lush
Posted: July 21, 2013 Filed under: ART, WRITERS | Tags: authors who drink, Charles Bukowski, Dorothy Parker, Dylan Thomas, Ernest Hemingway, F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, famous writers, Frida Kahlo, HUNTER S. THOMPSON, Jack Kerouac, Mental As Anything - 'The Nips Are Getting Bigger' 1979, Pickled writers, Tennessee Williams Leave a commentLush – Urban Dictionary definition:
If presented with an opportunity to drink shamelessly and in large quantities, and if in the mood for a drunken good time, a lush generally won’t pass it up.
On Ernest Hemingway’s birthday it occurs to me that a lot of the writers I like were very fond of a drink or 400. Jack Kerouac, Dylan Thomas, Charles Bukowski, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hunter S. Thompson, Tennessee Williams and Dorothy Parker all battled the grip of the grape. Maybe alcohol’s power to lessen inhibitions opens the door to the imagination for creative types. Many writers and artists have a long history of substance and alcohol abuse.
“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim,” said Frida Kahlo.
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