…the effort. I mean, to me, you know, it is a miracle to be able to speak poetry. It is a miracle. I mean, when Coleridge wrote and south and south and southward I. We fled and it grew wondrous cold and ice mass high went floating by as green…

…everybody was into this stuff from about 1795 through much of the 18th century. Not only the great names associated with it Coleridge and de Quincey, but Byron and Shelley all of these people dabbled in opium. Well what comes out of the English Romantic…

…tradition, albeit an underground tradition, in western intellectual or aesthetic concerns based around the perturbation of consciousness with substances. Coleridge comes to mind as an example and you may know his poem Kublai Khan. Kublai Khan was written in…

…an example and you may know his poem Kublai Khan. Kublai Khan was written in a flash, basically based on an opium reverie. Coleridge was an aficionado of laudanum, which was a tinctured form of opium that had a great vogue in the 19th century. Well I…

…the evidence. I mean it to me you know it is a miracle to be able to speak poetry it is a miracle I mean when Coleridge wrote and south and south and southward I we fled and it grew wondrous cold and ice, mast high went floating by as green as…

…the romantic pursuit of synesthesia through opium that created the first wave of opium addiction in literate English Society I mean Coleridge and de Quincey and these people were quite consciously trying to use drugs to create and push the definitions of…