I don't know yet that the panicked shaking that happens when I run out of vodka is alcohol withdrawal, also known as Delirium Tremens. I am 25 years old, too young for pink elephants and seizures, surely...these are not the days of wine and roses. (I will see that Jack Lemon movie in my teens and think "oh, right, he goes to AA and everything is fine.") A few years from now it will seem to me the movie got it right.
When I see The Days of Wine and Roses yet again many years later, I realize only the drunk husband, not the drunk wife, got sober. It's a good movie.
Someone just told me how Ithaca is very like Key West, except without sunshine. Lake effect makes it rain or snow all the time. Carl Sagan used to say Ithaca would be perfect if they could move it out of Ithaca. I wasn't aware of the effect of lack of sun on mood, but now that I live in Key West, in the sunshine state, I find I still have a vitamin D deficiency, so Ithaca was not the best place for me to live as someone already suffering depression in Pennsylvania, although I had no label then. Seasonal Affective Disorder wasn't a catchphrase back in the 1970's.
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