Very interesting Ken. I don't get out a lot but I don't find it prosaic.
We have our drunks in our village. Of one his father said - He has a bad man
who lives in a bottle."
regards - jen
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From: Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Long snap: Drinking
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 09:01:23 -0500
The plague is everywhere. It is Stateside, in Australia, the UK. I meet
its survivors among Irish Catholics from Jersey City who refer jokingly to
alcoholism as Morbus Hibernicus. See, they all went to Marist High School
in Bayonne, so they learned Latin too. It hit Jews too. Morbus Hebraicus?
My father didn't drink. This is the only reason I'm alive. My mother was a
dry drunk who had all the characteristics of an alcoholic but didn't drink
because of her precious control she did not have anyway: the only times I
ever saw her happy were the few occasions she got a bit tipsy on whiskey
sours.
Nobody in the extended family was a drunk. That's because Jews don't become
drunks. That's why I go to four or five meetings a week. The forgot to
circumcise me. I am actually the Pope in Rome.
I have heard versions of this before. "I would wake up next to some guy and
not know who he was or how I got there. A month later I'd figure out I was
pregnant." Immaculate conception: you don't remember a damn thing.
"I would wake up handcuffed to a hospital gurney and find out that while in
uniform and a blackout, I, a cop on duty, drew my service weapon and killed
a guy because I wanted to use the pay phone to call my bookmaker."
I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
I'm reading a nightmare. Mine, a lot of people's. If you think it's
prosaic, tough shit. Get out more.
Ken
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Kenneth Wolman andreachenier.net rainermaria.typepad.com
Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts. -- Ruth
Gordon
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