Thursday, June 23, 2005
Could he be speaking of Joe Kennedy? No, literary, Joseph Stalin...?......
"'Joe', I said, 'was perhaps the first great nonstop literary drinker of the American nineteenth century. He made the indulgences of Coleridge and DeQuincy seem like a bit of mischief in the kitchen with the cooking sherry.'" Alarms and Diversions, James Thurber
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