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Superman in the Bones: Unvarnished Lamentations About Alcohol
“As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.” — Robin Williams
When I was in college I saw a theater production called Superman in the Bones. It was a powerful event along the lines of an Ionesco play, theater of the absurd in style. My muddled memory includes references to French poet Baudelaire ( Les Fleurs de mal) whose drinking to excess ended in a stroke, and another writer Antonin Artaud. I vaguely recall a reference to another poet who drank himself to death in public. Dylan Thomas perhaps?
After recently reading about a 21-year-old who drank himself to death I wondered how long it takes to accomplish this feat. A Google search led me to a website that carried a discussion on this sad topic. What follows is delivered to you straight and unadulterated.
andy-hughes (Sun 01:13 29/Jan/06)
It depends on a huge number of variables — age, weight, diet, lifestyle, type and strength of alcohol ingested, frequency — the list goes on. It’s a ‘how long is a piece of string’ question, with no really set answers.
xrayspecs (Sun 10:15 29/Jan/06)
You could make a “supersize me” type documentary where…
