Genius And Heroin Part One
PG is reading “Genius and Heroin” by Michael Largo. There are some good stories.
It seems that Margaret Mitchell met a friend for drinks at the Atlanta Womens Club one night. No one really knows how many she had before she stepped in front of the taxi. PG has heard about her all his life, but never heard that part.
Truman Capote freaked out his mother so bad, she had two abortions later. She was afraid of having another kid like Truman.
Mary Lincoln had terrible headaches. Her husband Abraham wanted to cancel their visit to the theater because of his wife’s headache. Finally, an opium product called laudanum was procured, and Mrs. Lincoln’s headache went away. The next day, a friend asked her, ” Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”
There are two self descriptive blogs now, the page69test and the page99test. On p.69 of G&H, the story of Stephan Crane is told. Mr. Crane wrote high school perennial “The Red Badge of Courage”, and married the madame of a whorehouse. Page 99 is a divider between sections of the alphabetically arranged text. On page 99, you see a stylized F set against a gray background.
The motto of the page99test is “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” In this case, it is either the F word or a failing grade.
PG is now at page 123. There, he finds the Jean Harlow story. Curiously, G&H does not mention her marriage to Paul Bern.
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[…] woke up one Sunday morning, and started to look in his archive. He found a post from July 2009, Genius And Heroin Part One. The G&H book had been mentioned in a couple of blogs, The Page 69 Test and The Page 99 Test. […]