Our friends at LIFE magazine posted a gallery of striking photos of "Famous Literary Drunks & Addicts," including William S. Burroughs, Louisa May Alcott, Jack London, Anne Sexton, and more than two dozen others. Above, Jean Cocteau, who said, "To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving."
LIFE magazine portraits of literary boozers and druggies
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Ya'll don't talk to each other much, do you? This was posted within the last couple weeks.
Yeah, but the site stopped functioning almost immediately, so it's worth a repost.
Deja vu. Hey at least this time it isn't Rand's picture.
Well I missed it, so, ta.