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Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. Thomas De Quincey consumed daily large quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller), and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes his surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and para
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Paperback, 352 pages
Published
March 27th 2003
by Penguin Classics
(first published 1821)
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Parts of his life story are included. It focuses on his experiences under opium and his motivations for taking opium.
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Interessant lesning.
Boken er skrevet en veldig reflektert engelsk intellektuell på begynnelsen av 1800-tallet. Han beskriver hvordan han som fattig student begynte med opium-bruk (opium er forløperen til morfin og heroin), og gjorde dette på "ansvarlig" vis i mange år (ca 17). Med "ansvarlig" menes at han tok det maks 2 ganger i uken, og han hadde få eller ingen negative bivirkninger.
Men på grunn av ting som skjedde i livet hans begynte han etterhvert å ta det daglig, og ble avhengig og syk av ...more
Boken er skrevet en veldig reflektert engelsk intellektuell på begynnelsen av 1800-tallet. Han beskriver hvordan han som fattig student begynte med opium-bruk (opium er forløperen til morfin og heroin), og gjorde dette på "ansvarlig" vis i mange år (ca 17). Med "ansvarlig" menes at han tok det maks 2 ganger i uken, og han hadde få eller ingen negative bivirkninger.
Men på grunn av ting som skjedde i livet hans begynte han etterhvert å ta det daglig, og ble avhengig og syk av ...more
ikke lest ennå, men dritfett cover
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