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Bukowski seems to have written drunk many times.

• fsloth 8y ago
  Alcoholics can develop a tremendous tolerance to booze. It does not mean anyone should emulate his lifestyle. Bukowski describes his semi-fictional self Henry Chinaski as emotionally broken person, who medicates his pain with alcohol, horse racing and the like. He never actually glorifies this state of being, rather, he's brutally honest about who he is and how he behaves. There can be poetry in damage, but it's tragic beauty, and it's the sort of beauty one should not try to emulate on purpose.
  • josu 8y ago
    Definitely, I wasn't trying to support the use of drugs to enhance creativity. I wanted to point out that even though Hemingway could have been sober when he wrote, it doesn't falsify that there have been drunk authors throughout history. Being an addict is bad, that's unarguable.