…I don't know what the general answer would be there. I was trying to think what cases one can think of. I mean, who... Well, Milton, of course, went blind when he was quite advanced in life. So he knew all about exactly what he wanted to do by then.…

…I mean, being at school and doing the ordinary things. But this certainly pushed my mind in that direction. In the case of Milton, do you think that his blindness affected the later affect of, I should say, the quality of the work that he produced after…

…crude old drugs. I mean, as a houseman years ago remarked apropos of Milton's Paradise Lost, he says, and beer does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. And Beer is, of course, an extremely crude drug compared with these ones. And you can…

…ones. And you can certainly say that some of the psychic energizers and the new hallucinants can do incomparably more than Milton and all the theologians combined could possibly do to make the terrifying mystery of our existence seem more tolerable than it…

…my question shows a certain optimism which may not be justified. In a way, your quote from Houseman, that Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man, indicates that my remarks may show that I'm looking into the pewter pot to see the…

…from the outside which can produce these profound effects upon the mind. As a houseman said long ago, beer does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. And there are many chemicals a great deal more effective than beer. And incidentally, one…