RARA-AVIS: Faulkner's drinking

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• From: Virginia Conn <vconn@ACSU.Buffalo.EDU>
• Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 07:18:59 -0500 (EST)
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On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Rita Rippetoe wrote:

> sIf one believes the thesis of _The Thirsty Muse_ (sorry, I don't have the
> author's name), it was alcoholism which corrupted Faulkner. It also cost
> him his Hollywood jobs as he became too unreliable because of periodic
> blackouts and bouts in drying out facilities. 

I agree Rita.  Faulkner drank before & after Hollywood, but in Oxford
he could set his own schedule & wrote around drinking.  

Hollywood exentuates flaws, but the flaws were there before they got to
Hollywood.  Hellman, a prodigious drinker, wrote well in Hollywood.  
Hammett, who shouldn't have been drinking, did not.

Virginia

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