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2 progress - and hopes to get into Yaddo via Ralph Bates. "Mad" Morris is an aberrant genius who was once wrought up enough to slug a Bishop (a Canonical offense!) - but is now an ex-Catholic via his 3rd marriage to a Vassar Professor who was Norris before she became Morris. Bro Algren writing "The Man With the Golden Arm" sort of proves the theory of the Lady editor of the Polish Catholic paper which charged he was a degenerate and a dope fiend! He owned to being degenerate (who - since Adam - isn't?) (save 2) - but now it appears he's an expert on the Hypo. Instead of the famous Sherlock Holmes "The needle, Watson" it'll be "The needle, Algren". Yours 2514 days sober

- Joe Diggles

P.S. AA is till going - we are some 75,000 - over 150 in Ireland! - Joe D