I should be napping, trying to get rid of this cold - the Doctor called it sinusitis. Whatever. I can't sleep. All I can think about is drink, or more precisely, think about this drink blog.
I have been wanting to finally get Hemingway's name on our "Drink Board" - our standings for which great historical or famous person is most known for not simply drinking, but having "the drink in him". Hemingway was going to get in there eventually but I grew impatient.
So, I thought I'd justify Hemingway's entry then by simply Googling: "Hemingway Drink".
This pull of the Internet slot-machine resulted in discovering a site which answers the question of whether or not Hemingway was an alocoholic in this manner:
"It has been reported that during the last twenty years of his life, Hemingway got himself into the habit of consuming a quart of whiskey a day. To many, such drinking behavior would indicate alcoholism. Hemingway did like to drink and was blessed with the ability to drink great amounts without showing the effects (don't know if this is a blessing, to some I imagine it is). Towards the end of his life when his health began to deteriorate and his doctors told him to lay off the bottle, he did, but only temporarily. Whenever he felt the urge, he would pick up the practice again. It wasn't the alcohol though that killed Hemingway in the end. It was a shotgun blast to the head. Hemingway was passionate about so many things in his life, alcohol just happened to be one of them. He carried this passion with him wherever he went. Alcohol truly was his moveable feast."
A good answer to the question for us, I think. By looking at drinking as a passion it gets closer to our thesis that while drink is something to consume, it also something powerful and beautiful within us.
Do you have the drink in you? Are you drink - in the way other great people are or have been?
If so, drop us a line.
I have been wanting to finally get Hemingway's name on our "Drink Board" - our standings for which great historical or famous person is most known for not simply drinking, but having "the drink in him". Hemingway was going to get in there eventually but I grew impatient.
So, I thought I'd justify Hemingway's entry then by simply Googling: "Hemingway Drink".
This pull of the Internet slot-machine resulted in discovering a site which answers the question of whether or not Hemingway was an alocoholic in this manner:
"It has been reported that during the last twenty years of his life, Hemingway got himself into the habit of consuming a quart of whiskey a day. To many, such drinking behavior would indicate alcoholism. Hemingway did like to drink and was blessed with the ability to drink great amounts without showing the effects (don't know if this is a blessing, to some I imagine it is). Towards the end of his life when his health began to deteriorate and his doctors told him to lay off the bottle, he did, but only temporarily. Whenever he felt the urge, he would pick up the practice again. It wasn't the alcohol though that killed Hemingway in the end. It was a shotgun blast to the head. Hemingway was passionate about so many things in his life, alcohol just happened to be one of them. He carried this passion with him wherever he went. Alcohol truly was his moveable feast."
A good answer to the question for us, I think. By looking at drinking as a passion it gets closer to our thesis that while drink is something to consume, it also something powerful and beautiful within us.
Do you have the drink in you? Are you drink - in the way other great people are or have been?
If so, drop us a line.
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