2007-01-09, 19:03
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I förordet till Donald Newloves Drinkarens dagar nämner Bengt Anderberg att han själv är alkoholist.
Jo, Anderberg brukar tydligen ge sig ut på riktiga blackouteskapader när han väl börjar dricka, minnesluckor som varar några dygn tills han vaknar upp på okänd ort...fast jag tror det hör till förfluten tid i hans fall.
Anthony Burgess spottade som bekant inte i glaset, och han hade under många år en daglig supkamrat i hustrun Lynne, a bad-tempered drunk, som dog av sviternaAndrew Biswell skriver i The Real Life of Anthony Burgess (2005), 264-65:
"---“Apart from work, of which there was obviously a great deal, there was also the drinking to get done. Burgess and Lynne would get through a couple of bottles of wine over dinner, and a dozen bottles of Gordon’s gin were delivered to the house every week – an astonishing amount considering that they hardly ever entertained visitors. Burgess’s rate of gin consumption was not measurably lower than his wife’s. When he wasn’t drinking gin in the house, or downing pints of beer with double-whisky chasers at the Etchingham Arms – his habitual den in the village, from which Lynne had been barred after a fist-fight with the landlord – he was devising life-threatening cocktails, such as the Hangman’s Blood (‘I recommend this for a quick, though expensive, lift’), which he described tto readers of the Guardian in 1966: ‘Into a pint beer-glass doubles of the following are poured: gin, whisky, rum, port, and brandy. A small bottle of stout is added, and the whole topped up with champagne or champagne-surrogate. It tastes very smooth, induces a somehow metaphysical elation, and rarely leaves a hangover
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