junkie writers
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Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
on what? i thought he was just an absinthe freak
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Lester Bangs, the cough syrup king.
discokermit
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doesn't absinthe count? it's got wormwood in it. and it sends you mad.
it mentions drug addiction on his wiki page, can't be arsed to look any further though.
not-bono-ever
meh
re-read JUnkie last month - didnt see this bit
JUnkie is the only WB worth reading TBH, the others are a bit emperors new clothes
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
i suppose it does count - it certainly inspired a lot of writing and art.
i can't be arsed to check either, but they only really had opium/morphine in those days.
incidentally, does anyone know when cocaine was 'invented' and what for? and when did people start abusing it?
which brings me to freud, he was a bit of a cokehead after taking cocaine to blot out the pain of his jaw/mouth cancer. or has he been mentioned already?
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Dennis Nilsen likes to get drunk, get stoned and scribble a fair bit.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/221925/dennis_nilsen_my_prison_life_of_drink_and_drugs/
Although I hear that "Dennis Nilsen's Cooking For One' still, inexplicably, awaits a publisher.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/221925/dennis_nilsen_my_prison_life_of_drink_and_drugs/
Although I hear that "Dennis Nilsen's Cooking For One' still, inexplicably, awaits a publisher.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
yeah, he killed only when he was pissed.
so he'd wake up with a stinking hangover and slowly piece together the events of the night before, then slap his forehead in dismay, whimpering 'oh no, i did it again!'
so he'd wake up with a stinking hangover and slowly piece together the events of the night before, then slap his forehead in dismay, whimpering 'oh no, i did it again!'
steveo87
22/11/2022 - got a maths joke.
I always thought that.
Spends three months of the year writing solidly, and then spends the rest of the year 'touring the whiskey distilleries of Northern Scotland'-there can't be THAT many of them, surely....
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
Jonti
what the dormouse said
is it 'cos it upsets the junkies?
Johnny Canuck3
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Johnny Canuck3
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Kerouac was addicted to benzedrine, not heroin, to my knowledge.
yes, because alcohol is a drug.
Johnny Canuck3
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I thought the thread was about junkie writers, not drug using writers in general.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
are you saying junkys only use heroin? i think the term has recently expanded to include all drug addicts
Johnny Canuck3
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Maybe there. Here, 'junkie' refers to someone who uses junk, aka heroin.
Ah yeah true. OK, so then aren't nominations like Coleridge inaccurate too? After all, he was into his opium, but not smack. I know they're related, but an opium addict is still not strictly a junkie, if we're being that strict about it...
Ditto louis carroll, etc...
Johnny Canuck3
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Exactly. Opium maybe, but not laudanum etc.
To the extent that heroin use is at all relevant to writing, might as well compare apples with apples.
To the extent that heroin use is at all relevant to writing, might as well compare apples with apples.
Laudanum is opium mixed with alcohol.
Of course it is. Anyone addicted to opiates is a junkie.
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
nah, i meant people addicted to any sort of drug.
In that case it would be quicker to list the writers who weren't "junkies." Much quicker.
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