{"footnote":"\u003Cp\u003EI wrote a piece in the \u003Ca href=\u0022\/the-paper\/v12\/n05\/john-lanchester\/cheers\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELRB\u003C\/em\u003E (8 March 1990)\u003C\/a\u003E mentioning the drinking habits of Colonel Cantwell in Hemingway\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cem\u003EAcross the River and into the Trees\u003C\/em\u003E. The colonel smashes forty units of alcohol in a single evening. Christopher Hitchens read the piece and told me: \u0026lsquo;I thought, oh good, I\u0026rsquo;m a social drinker.\u0026rsquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\n","audio":[],"video":[]}