Re: Just finished reading of "What’s New In Python 3.0"

n00m n00m at narod.ru
Fri Mar 11 02:59:09 EST 2011


Fitzgerald had been an alcoholic since his college days, and became
notorious during the 1920s for his extraordinarily heavy drinking,
leaving him in poor health by the late 1930s. According to Zelda's
biographer, Nancy Milford, Scott claimed that he had contracted
tuberculosis, but Milford dismisses it as a pretext to cover his
drinking problems. However, Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli
contends that Fitzgerald did in fact have recurring tuberculosis, and
Nancy Milford reports that Fitzgerald biographer Arthur Mizener said
that Scott suffered a mild attack of tuberculosis in 1919, and in 1929
he had "what proved to be a tubercular hemorrhage". It has been said
that the hemorrhage was caused by bleeding from esophageal varices.



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