High Bottom

I WAS what is called a high bottom, low threshold of pain drinker. I am an artist. I started drinking in art school in 1930 and continued rather heavy drinking without any alcoholic trouble from 1930 until the middle of the recent war. I was in the Navy. I was hospitalized and sent ashore after the invasion of Luzon. I had seen a good deal of combat before Luzon but I guess it was the Kamikazes which got to me and pushed me over the alcoholic line, for when I arrived ashore I got drunk on ten beers, and I had never been drunk before. I had prided myself on my capacity and had a very high reputation in a very wet Navy as a guy who could hold plenty.