The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on DrugsHarvard University Press, 1. des. 2002 - 360 sider From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday's Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination tinged and oftentimes transformed by drugs. The age-old association of literature and drugs receives its first comprehensive treatment in this far-reaching work. Drawing on history, science, biography, literary analysis, and ethnography, Marcus Boon shows that the concept of drugs is fundamentally interdisciplinary, and reveals how different sets of connections between disciplines configure each drug's unique history. |
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... coffee : “ Coffee , the sober liquor , potently cerebral , which contrary to spirits , augments clarity and lucidity - coffee which suppresses the vague and heavy poetry of the smoke of the imagination , which , seeing reality in plain ...
... coffee a second time in his stomach , and then it pours forth as black ink on a white page.21 This image contains one of the primary themes of stimulant literature , that of a technologically assisted dictation that becomes possible ...
... coffee , to rouse himself from barbiturate - induced sleep . In the twentieth century , F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote while drinking coffee , presumably before and after his alcohol binges . Sartre washed down his pep pills with coffee . And ...
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