Drinking drowns creativity. I can do many many things almost properly while drunk, but one thing I can't do is write anything good.
It's possible that's what we're after when we drink: stop the flow of ideas. That's one meaning of "stupefy".
It's possible that's what we're after when we drink: stop the flow of ideas. That's one meaning of "stupefy".
>Alcohol has played a central role in the creative lives of some of the most famous authors of the last few centuries. Lewis Hyde notes in his essay Alcohol and Poetry that four of the six Americans who have won the Nobel Prize for Literature were alcoholics, namely William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck.
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/booze-as-muse-write...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/henrydevries/2018/12/11/ernest-...
9:00(pm) starts snorting cocaine seriously
10:00 drops acid
11:00 Chartreuse, cocaine, grass
11:30 cocaine, etc, etc.
12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write
12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies.
No, drinking drowns your creativity.