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: > >>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. > >______________________________________________________________________ > >Caelum tueri taedet. >______________________________________________________________________ > > Michael Kicey > > EMAIL & WEBPAGE PHONE > school: [log in to unmask] school: 717/399.6281 > home: [log in to unmask] home: 717/464.9284 > anywhere: [log in to unmask] ABODE > web: acad.fandm.edu/~M_Kicey/ 210 Meyran Hall >______________________________________________________________________ > Dan Pearlman Office: Department of English 102 Blackstone Blvd. #5 University of Rhode Island Providence, RI 02906 Kingston, RI 02881 Tel.: 401 453-3027 Tel.: 401 874-4659 email: [log in to unmask] Fax: 401 874-2580