Thank you Ruby.
Alcoholic inspiration is strangely cyclical. For it seems that drinking comes after pain, offering a substitute inspiration and a dulling of pain - followed by action based on false inspiration. Then the illusion of success. Further precipitating drinking - tranquillisation, inspiration, action and false success. Repeat Ad infinitum.
What's challenging to overcome is the peace and hopefulness that follows the first couple of drinks, the creative project that's inspired and the memory of what was accomplished in transition between a regular person (with talent) and an alcoholic (talent squandered).
Thanks. B