The Religion of Writing Pt. 2 "Bacchus"

By JavaMan · Apr 14, 2009 · 534 · 4
  1. Believe it or not, there is a very basic reason why nearly every great writer of the past two centuries was an alcoholic. I'm serious, folks... :)

    I may regret writing this, but for a writer, alcoholism is a disease of the desire of the explaination of the causality within chaos... they are addicted to the liquor...the spirits...the beer...the cocktails...the tonics...the wines. I suppose that you'd have to be versed in the sublties of writing to be able to understand.

    They are all purists, in a certain sense, I think; or something similar. They know that they are diseased, in a certain sense, and compensate that with writing.

    But why the pen, paper, and book, you may be asking (should be!:))

    Because a true writer, one who accepts the paper and book as his/her lover, and the finished product as his/her child (metaphorically! of course!) beleives that there is Truth in language, mostly, that of the written word. Let me ask you to look up the word 'liber' in a dictionary. It usually has two meanings:

    a) a title for Bacchus, an ancient Roman god of wine and intoxication
    b) public records, which of course generally means anything that is important enough to be written down

    The writer, in/on an archetypical level identifies with that definition.

    Sorry, reader(s) I've...I'm.... Maybe I should leave that as it is, because, frankly, I'm tired of hinting and explaining.

    Post what ye will... It'll be good any way you look at it. ;)

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  1. seymoore999
    :confused:Can alcohol be substituted with pot? I am not suggesting any illegal activity, I am just curious if one can be a great writer abusing a substance other than alcohol to enter into the world of chaos and emotion. :eek:
    seymoore999, Apr 15, 2009
  2. JavaMan
    Seymoore999,

    I think it's important to understand that alcohol does not make the writer. It's the other way around - great writers are often driven to the bottle. The whole reason my two blogs are called "The Religion of Writing" is that there are very close analogies between the addict's preferance of spirituality and his/her fixation.

    To put it another way, the true writer is so dedicated to writing it is akin to religion. Albert Einstein once said something like: Being that I'm a born Jew, people often ask me on my opinion of religion. I am only religious in the way that, as a physicist, I am always asking myself, 'How did God make the Universe?'

    I wouldn't think most credible writers purposely used any mind-altering substance for the sake of trying to "enter into the world of chaos and emotion."

    Anyhow...Thanks for reading and commenting! I hope that I've helped!!! :::)))))
    JavaMan, Apr 15, 2009
  3. seymoore999
    I totally get that neither alcohol nor any other substance makes a writer. I define myself as a writer and have done so long before I ever drank or smoked anything. However, for some a joint is their drink, their poison. You ended your original post with, "Post what ye will... It'll be good any way you look at it." So I was just sort of being silly and humoring myself that my poison is as good as any. :cool:
    seymoore999, Apr 17, 2009
  4. JavaMan
    Sorry for taking so long to answer....

    I heard once that everyone has the basic neuro-chemical preferance for a paricular drug - one man's poison isn't always another's. In my experience, mariquana users are more concerned with the beauty of marriage (Mary-J(oseph/esus).

    Crack smokers often have father-son relationship problems - I suppose that may have to do with the "Rock of the Church," and/or "Saint Peter."

    Alcoholics are different only in the way that we (in my small opinon) have issues with the idea of a single masculine archetype of "God." We also have issues with absolute trust, which is why we go towards the affordable security of the Mother of infantile (virginal, pure) love.

    Obviously all of this has alot to do with the so-call "oral fixation" as well! :eek:
    JavaMan, Apr 26, 2009
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