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Elmurmurings, issue 3, August 1944
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Elmurmurs on.... To Harry and Doe (who agree that music makes no pictures) saying you're quite right if pictures in the program-note sense of the word are point. If pictures are seen it's either intoxication (alcoholic or narcotic) or wish-fulfillment on the observer's part. The wish-fulfillment I've seen, and be warned the headache from creating is a on wheels. No knowledge of the other type: I've never been drunk enough at a strength to get the d. t.'s. Perhaps some one of you gentlemen can describe? Milty, music runs through your head continually--were any of those pictures set to music, when the doctor's codein [codeine] was killing pain? And now if I might whisper in Mr. Evans' ear, with regards to the alcohol question, a mighty shout of concurrence with Mr. Laney's views on the matter; and more, to abet the latter with this: There is adequate authority for the use of alcohol and other physical escape mechanisms. The law recognized the right of the physician so to prescribe, during the prohibition era. My doctor has me riding the ben--two ten-grain benzedrine sulphate tablets daily until psychiatric treatment can be begun. Benzedrine is an artificial crutch, the medic's usual substitute for alcohol; curing nothing, but giving a mental lift over despondent periods. A quote, Mr. Evans? The Doctor said as he wrote: "This will be hard on the heart. Death would be harder on it." Conclusion to be drawn: do not use alcohol as an escape; but when using the lush, do it with the object of jarring the mind out of a spiral approaching zero as a limit. But don't get stinking drunk. Use the lush as an anodyne for temporary hurts; as an anaesthetic until the big, big hurts have faded to bearable size. Use it as an aid to conviviality; drink has only one equal as an aloofness-breaker and abettor of fluent conversation. Use it to moisten a throat dry from too many cigarettes. One doesn't have to go into insensibility for King Alcohol to rest his soothing baby hands on the forehead, easing the worried mind... And that is Elmer's alcohol philosophy condensed to two paragraphs.
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Elmurmurs on.... To Harry and Doe (who agree that music makes no pictures) saying you're quite right if pictures in the program-note sense of the word are point. If pictures are seen it's either intoxication (alcoholic or narcotic) or wish-fulfillment on the observer's part. The wish-fulfillment I've seen, and be warned the headache from creating is a on wheels. No knowledge of the other type: I've never been drunk enough at a strength to get the d. t.'s. Perhaps some one of you gentlemen can describe? Milty, music runs through your head continually--were any of those pictures set to music, when the doctor's codein [codeine] was killing pain? And now if I might whisper in Mr. Evans' ear, with regards to the alcohol question, a mighty shout of concurrence with Mr. Laney's views on the matter; and more, to abet the latter with this: There is adequate authority for the use of alcohol and other physical escape mechanisms. The law recognized the right of the physician so to prescribe, during the prohibition era. My doctor has me riding the ben--two ten-grain benzedrine sulphate tablets daily until psychiatric treatment can be begun. Benzedrine is an artificial crutch, the medic's usual substitute for alcohol; curing nothing, but giving a mental lift over despondent periods. A quote, Mr. Evans? The Doctor said as he wrote: "This will be hard on the heart. Death would be harder on it." Conclusion to be drawn: do not use alcohol as an escape; but when using the lush, do it with the object of jarring the mind out of a spiral approaching zero as a limit. But don't get stinking drunk. Use the lush as an anodyne for temporary hurts; as an anaesthetic until the big, big hurts have faded to bearable size. Use it as an aid to conviviality; drink has only one equal as an aloofness-breaker and abettor of fluent conversation. Use it to moisten a throat dry from too many cigarettes. One doesn't have to go into insensibility for King Alcohol to rest his soothing baby hands on the forehead, easing the worried mind... And that is Elmer's alcohol philosophy condensed to two paragraphs.
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