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.
 
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