Under The Volcano

I read Lowry during the first few

years in Mexico...I fancied I was

like him, romantically and obscurely

drinking myself to death under the

looming metaphor for the end of

civilization. I quit drinking due to a

vision I had...it was a miracle, but I 

can't prove that. Meanwhile, the

metaphor has expanded to the 

whole world about to blow. He

probably wouldn't have finished

that book had it not been for his.

wife. A modern novel about an 

end time.  Writing the book same 

as drinking himself to death.

You notice there are no more books 

of the Bible after Revelations