In my comments about the PBS documentary on Hank Williams I noted: “Another

old-timer on Hank & Miz Audrey: ‘Never did figure out which way it went,

whether it was his drinkin’ that drove her to naggin’, or her naggin’ that

drove him to drinkin’.’”

A reader sent me the following pertinent bit of Ogden nashery:

He drinks because she nags, he thinks
She nags because he drinks, she thinks
While neither will admit what’s true
That he’s a sot and she’s a shrew.
—Ogden Nash