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...model of slimness, at 146 lbs. on a 5-ft. 10½-in. frame. He had never gorged himself on marbled steaks and pie à la mode, and since 1959 had spartanized his diet to approximately that used in his own DietHeart Study. Dr. Page was a moderate social drinker. He smoked scarcely half a pack a day. He tried to maintain a reasonable level of exercise by using the stairs instead of the elevator every time he had to go up two flights or down three. He tried to find time for tennis, playing sedate doubles...
Even after all those years (it's probably only twenty or so) he has to console himself with an unconvincingly ironic and playful mispronunciation of his feelings. She may indeed have been excellent, but the sonnets reveal that she was also inconsiderate, thoroughly unpredictable, a heavy drinker (perhaps alcoholic), and the wife of a close friend. It still hurts just to remember the lady and his responses to her. Berryman would like us to believe that it all happened when he was still a boy, not a lover, only a wuver...
Twenty-three years ago, Charles Jackson wrote The Lost Weekend, a successful first novel about a problem drinker. He has been a problem novelist ever since. The Fall of Valor (1946) was about a homosexual, The Outer Edges (1948) about paranoiacs. This one is about a nymphomaniac, which ought to give it a somewhat more eclectic appeal than the previous two. Trouble is, A Second-Hand Life is more a case history than a novel. Winifred Grainger can't take her mind off sex or, specifically, the male sex organ. But all she does is talk about...
...taking a fistful of the bark strips, cleaning them and then sterilizing them in boiling water for ten minutes. The clean strips are left to soak for a day in about a half-gallon of cold water. After filtering, a teaspoonful of the water is claimed to send the drinker to a heaven of rich colors...
...Braumeister on tuba: He is young, puffy, crewcut, a graduate of the college marching band. In keeping with the Germanic tradition of his horn, he is a dedicated beer drinker...