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| Papasmurf's Drunken Experiment |
| I have been told Edgar Allen Poe was a cocaine user as well as an alcoholic. It would stand to reason much of his work was composed while he was in some state of intoxication. I have always wondered what it would be like to write in such a state. I'm not much of a drinker but I'm not going out to buy cocaine just for a writing experiment. So what I propose to do is this. I am writing this little foreword as sober as a judge. When I finish it, I am going to go quickly drink a couple of large glasses of vodka. Then I will return here and resume typing. I'm really not sure what the topic of discussion will be. At any rate, here I dive into the vodka pool. I'll be back very shortly. 8:03AM
8:29AM Two 16 oz glasses of chilled, straight, and neat vodka later, I sit down. I must say that's not the smoothest drink I've ever had. I think maybe my sinuses are damaged. It's possible there's also a hole burnt in my throat somewhere that will at some point need medical attention. While a bit worse for the wear, the deed is done. All that matters now is the passage of time as the hootch starts to weave its magic. I'm but a pawn to sit and wait upon intoxication. The begining blurry edges of it are already making themselves apparent. I'm not sure when the last time was I had to hit backspace so many times to correct the errors I am making while I type this nonsense. I just caught myself leaning into the computer and reading the same sentence for about the 10th time and realized it is getting hard to think straight. Then, just now I had to stop and think because I couldn't remember what I had just decided to type. I still don't remember what it was. My fingers seem a bit more spastic than usual. If I space out for a second with my hands paused above the keyboard, I come back to something that looks like this. omf,msmcih w Seeing that alone when I looked back up just wiped my brain completely clean of whatever my fingers were suppose to type. Leaning up out of a somewhat awkward state of relaxation to get to the keyboard is getting to be a chore now. I just did something I said I wasn't gonna do. I was going to keep whatever I wrote here. There was to be no deleting of more than a word or 2 anywhere. As it turns out, I just deleted the past 4 sentences. That would not include this sentence I added on as a way of....explaining....something.....crap>>> Forgot where that was going!!!! Oh Yeah! It's ... nope...gone again. Guess I should change the subject or at least pick one. OK so I'm really thirsty so for the next few moments I will be retrieving moisture. 9:18AM 9:39AM Man! That took forever. But I am back and nothing's broken (that I can't fix). I'm not sure if my thoughts are going so fast I can't keep up or if they're just all coming at one time. Nothing makes sense. Takes me 30 keystrokes with corrections to type out a four letter word. Wow! It's 10:00AM and i'm outof It. Wordsare startingto run together. It's gettin spinny in here oh mercy I am tired. it probly is thu booze. sUre not gonna heva a problem sleeepingh tonighty I think I'll just Layhjnmzzzzzz 10:20PM What was I thinking? |
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