A character with this condition walks dozens of blocks with his typewriter looking for an open pawnshop before realizing they are all closed for Yom Kippur.
A character with this condition walks dozens of blocks with his typewriter looking for an open pawnshop before realizing they are all closed for Yom Kippur. That character is the writer Don Birnam. A former anarchist with this condition frequently yells "The days grow hot, O Babylon!" A character with this condition is friends with Jacques Laruelle, and is shot by police just before his wife (*) Yvonne is trampled by a horse. This condition is the subject of the novel The Lost Weekend. A consul living in Quauhnahuac with this condition named Geoffrey Firmin is the protagonist of Under the Volcano. A number of sufferers of this condition hold onto their pipe dreams and await Theodore Hickman's visits in a play by Eugene O'Neill. For 10 points, name this condition suffered by most of the denizens of Harry Hope's bar in The Iceman Cometh.
A character with this condition walks dozens of blocks with his typewriter looking for an open pawnshop before realizing they are all closed for Yom Kippur.
alcoholism [prompt on "addiction"; accept clear equivalents] 