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'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum (opium and alcohol) addiction and its effect on his life. The 'Confessions' was the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight.
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Teagan
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nicolioly
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“this man spent over 200 pages describing EVERY. SINGLE. PERSON. he met since he was a teenager and how people always LOVED him because they thought he was SO smart even though he wasn’t SUPER educated but he faked it until he made it and even got to stay with people for free because of how CULTURED and WISE he came off as OH and ALSO he fell in love with a prostitute one time but she left him and he never really unpacked it and it haunts him and he just hopes she’s still alive because she was a good person and had a kind heart and so did he but they couldn’t be together because he couldn’t save her and that still makes him very sad to think about but his whole life is just very interesting and cool and awesome and filled with the most boring stories you’ve ever heard AND THEN at the VERY END he’s just like “oh by the way, i’m an opium addict. but actually, i’m gonna be super honest, i don’t even think abusing opium is, like, THAT bad. am i allowed to say that?”
remember that boyfriend you had when you were 20 who wouldn’t stop talking about how shrooms taught him basic human empathy and then eventually asked you if you would be willing to open your relationship so he could sleep with other women? remember him? this is his great-granddaddy.
oh and GET THIS - because he really downplayed how dark his drug addiction got in favor of waxing poetic about psychedelic dreams and infinite time, he got whatever the 19th century version of being “cancelled” was and had to, like, release a revised edition of this book being like “so actually, DON’T do anything i talked about because opium addiction? no joke. it makes you, like… unfocused? tired? messy? i don’t know - i think i’m just so smart that i forget how stupid other people are and that they can’t handle debilitating drug dependency with the same level of charm and charisma as me. so anyway, here’s a fact sheet for you normies.”
in the end, i hated this man for real. i guess his dreams were cool, but DAMN. i do love a druggie though. reminds me of my Live PD era. all he needed was a box of crayons and a coloring book.”
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Ana
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Anushka Malik
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“★★★☆☆
Sufferings of a sensitive soul who could have achieved more, had he curbed some of his baser instincts, not run away from school (even though I understand the urge), had not dabbled in homelessness and starvation in his youth and in opium in his adulthood.
The writing was of course, exactly as expected as that of an English gentleman of the time, meaning "uses a great many words to say but too little". And the low star-rating is owing to that.
This book could easily (and much more comfortably) have been but thirty or so pages and the world of literature wouldn't be any worse off if so. Having said that, there were some instances of really beautiful, almost poignantly emotional passages that make me glad I did in fact read it.”
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