Confessions of an Opium Eater
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Basic Info
- Author: Thomas De Quincey
- Year: 1822
- Type: #primary1
Summary (brief)
-Quincey loves laudanum (opium mixed with alcohol)
- preliminary confessions - early life, running away from a strict grammar school, starving and homeless youth, forms a tragic bond with Ann
- The pleasures and pains of opium: introduction to the drug in 1804 to soothe a gastric illness; initially praises the drug for expanding his intellect; spirals into a heavy addiction; agonizing psychic consequences including nightmares full of architecture, crows, and imagery
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quote:: “Oh! Just subtle, and mighty opium! that to the hearts of poor and rich alike, for the wounds that will never heal...bringest an assuaging balm”
page:: 212
themes:: #addiction addiction
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#autobiography
#Memoir
#Autofiction (pioneering)
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