(from The NY Times)
It’s an old notion: alcohol stirs the muse. Winston Churchill vouched for this, calling his tippling crucial to finishing his six-volume memoirs (“Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than it has taken out of me”). Faulkner, Twain, Beethoven and Van Gogh also seem to have mixed drink beneficially with their work. Now, in the British magazine Prospect, Philip Hunter calls attention to research supporting the drink-to-inspiration idea... READ MORE
Thanks to D. Bowens for the link!
