I don't admire his behavior though and I don't want to emulate that behavior. He makes his alcoholism and everything that goes with it less appealing to me, unl

I don't admire his behavior though and I don't want to emulate that behavior. He makes his alcoholism and everything that goes with it less appealing to me, unlike other authors who do romanticize a sort of rock and roll lifestyle. Unless the behavior we are talking about is his writing style and his honesty and his ability to talk about some of our darker states of mind in a way that feels authentic to the reader. > There's something romantic and intoxicating about frank, brutal honesty w/rt the inner id, the fortitude to look deep into the heart of one's own darkness without blinking that gets frequently conflated with 'romanticizing' or 'normalizing' that darkness. Well yes. My point was that the parent comment got it wrong with the 'romanticizing'. Sounds like you agree.