Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincey
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One day, when I am spiritually advanced enough to endure penury, I will teach English Literature to the deserving, and we will study Confessions of an English Opium Eater, reading it out loud, just to enjoy its syntax. People talk about this as the first memoir of addiction, but for the first half of the book there is nothing about opium at all. And the second half talks as much about De Quincey’s love of a good hard winter and how he likes to drink tea all night as it does about getting high. He even says at one point that he won’t describe the symptoms of a come down more fully because he hasn’t got the space. (The book is only about a hundred pages long.)
Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincey
Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas…
Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincey
One day, when I am spiritually advanced enough to endure penury, I will teach English Literature to the deserving, and we will study Confessions of an English Opium Eater, reading it out loud, just to enjoy its syntax. People talk about this as the first memoir of addiction, but for the first half of the book there is nothing about opium at all. And the second half talks as much about De Quincey’s love of a good hard winter and how he likes to drink tea all night as it does about getting high. He even says at one point that he won’t describe the symptoms of a come down more fully because he hasn’t got the space. (The book is only about a hundred pages long.)