You can be absolutely certain that EP never had an
alcohol "problem," as they say.
 
==DP
 
At 05:45 PM 9/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
>On 28.09.1998 3:39 PM, Daniel Pearlman at [log in to unmask] lamented:
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>>Carpenter's wrong.  I can personally attest to having shared
>>many a meal with EP, at which--in his eighties--he still
>>enjoyed his glass of white wine.  White, never red.
>>==Dan P
>
>Well this cd just be the Continental inclination v. American prudery, not
>a destructive habit, cdn't it?  Not that I am challenging yr direct
>experience---hats off to firsthand evidence, by all means.  But there is
>a difference betw. wine with a meal and using it as a stimulant for
>Dichten.
>
>At any rate, Cheers (no pun intended)
>Michael K.
>
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