Hemingway and SPN

[inheritedjeans]

Reading For Whom the Bell Tolls and I came across this:

"'Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in his own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.'"

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[honeylocusttree]

Go read this:
roque-clasique.livejournal.com/138098.html

It's very very dark and gritty and utterly without comfort, but it fits the bill of being a very accurate depiction of the ways alcoholism and bad coping mechanism can utterly destroy a person.

Read all the warnings first! This thing is as bleak as they come.

[inheritedjeans]

Okay, so you were not joking about the bleak. It was amazing, though. Thanks for sending me off there!

The worst (and I suppose best?) part about that fic was how incredibly believable the whole thing was.

[honeylocusttree]

Right? She did a pretty excellent job, imho. We need more writers willing to push the envelope like that.