For Jazz, gens that chain-smoked/drank (try to find an interview with Louis or Duke where they’re not smoking) had long+productive careers, but heroin destroyed whoever touched it (Bird),till they got clean (Miles,Coltrane) Cocaine made music more boring but didn’t derail careershttps://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1160713660001484800 …
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Replying to @toad_spotted
reminds me of the preface to bend sinister where nabokov mentions his excellent health at the time and that he was smoking four packs a day
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Replying to @literalbanana @toad_spotted
most of the novelists seem to be drinking a lot but not much heroin
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Bend sinister is not my favorite Nabokov but it’s not my least favorite either and it’s his first in English I believe which could take some doing
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it’s not my favorite nabokov but it’s still one of my favorite novels
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