> >With regard to Michael Kicey's post, I'd just like to add that, >according to the famous "Jimmy the Bartender," Pound was "a white >winer." In other words, Hemingway's set didn't regard Pound as a real >drinker. Maybe he should have been. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. -John / \ ) (( )) ( /|\ ))_(( /|\ / | \ (/\|/\) / | \ _ / | \ (/ `|' \) / | \ _ | |-----------------/---|--voV--\ | /--Vov--|---\-----------------| | | | '^` (o o) '^` | | | | `\Y/' | | | |"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads| | | |and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those | | | |of any other class. There seems to have been a proneness in the | | | |brilliant and the warm-blooded to fall into this vice." | | | | - Abraham Lincoln | | |_|-----------------------------------------------------------------|_| I /\ / ( ( \ /\ I I / \ / \ \ \ / \ I I / \ / \ \ \ / \ I I / Y _/ /_ Y \ I `\ \' VVV