[ilds] Durrell and drink

[Denise Tart & David Green]

Bruce,

My doctor would certainly say that drinking more than one of bottle of wine a day is alcoholism - that's why I never go to see her!

Durrell claimed he drank 4 to 5 pints of wine a day or in metric speak 2 - 2.8 litres. 
This is about 3 and half standard aussie wine bottles or 24.5 standard Australian drinks. The Aussie Medical Association recomends no more than 4 standard drinks per day.  He and big Gerad Depardieu would have got on fine. Gerad is a three bottle man on a light day.

As to whether the demon effected his writing. Well, I know that if I drank nearly four bottles of wine in a day, I wouldn't feel much like writing the next day. I wouldn't feel much like anything really - except sermons and soda water to quote Lord Byron

Durrell had the constitution of an ox.

Anyway, you not an alcoholic until you go the meeting - Queenland Saying

David Green

Denise Tart & David Green
16 William Street, Marrickville NSW 2204

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0412 707 625
dtart at bigpond.net.au
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