Novelists And Cigars: A Long-Running Romance -

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ID:	539
Author:	chiron99
Title:	Novelists And Cigars: A Long-Running Romance
Article:	Like coffee, alcohol and other, somewhat more illicit pleasures, cigars have a longtime fascination for certain kinds of creative folks. Perhaps this is especially true of novelists, whose work compels them to sit staring at a page for hours a day, typing, looking for any small pleasure to momentarily enliven their bored senses. One of Philip Roth's characters nails it: "I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch." No wonder so many writers are also passionate smokers' and no wonder that devotees of a medium that requires and repays careful, disciplined attention often opt for the most refined and subtle-tasting form of tobacco: the cigar. Writer Sally Feldman names just a few examples: "The novelist Kurt Vonnegut, former president of the American Humanist Association, was a fanatical chain-smoker until his death earlier this year. Karl Marx sported cigars; Vaclav Havel, reforming literary president of the Czech Republic, is never seen without a cigarette; Jean Cocteau, Mary McCarthy, Dennis Potter and Martin Amis are just a few of an endless litany of freethinkers who have adopted smoking as their prop and their identity." Here are a few more who made cigar-smoking, specifically, part of their lives: Gertrude Stein About the author of this article: cigarfox provides you the opportunity to build your own sampler of the finest cigars that include cigar brands like montecristo, romeo
Category:	Society
Date:	September 09, 2008 06:20:57 PM

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