Wednesday, November 19, 2008

A Brief History of Drug Using Writers


Care of The Guardian.

Pictured above: Samuel Coleridge, Opium Addict

Coleridge wrote "Kubla Khan" after waking from an opium-induced stupor...

But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !
A savage place ! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover !

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