Opium : the flowers of evil /
Opium, once used for ritual purposes, is a substance which dulls pain and offers access to an artificial world, and has long been idealized by artists and markets. Baudelaire, Picasso, and Dickens were all inspired to create by the blue clouds of smoke. Known as either a sacred drug or the worst of...
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New York :
Parkstone International,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Chronology; I. Turning On: IntroductionThe Beautiful
- and Dangerous; Discovering Opium: Hippocrates Was Hip; Follow the Money: The Opium Wars; II. Turning On: Ritual and PracticeInhaling or Shooting Up: Poppy Nose Best; Opium Dens: Where Everybody KnowsYour Game; Highs and Lows: A Hip Gathering; III. Dropping Out: Taboos and FantasiesThe Exotic Appeal: From Laudanum to Laurent; The Story of O: Cherchez la femme; O, Sweet Death: Dying for a Fix; IV. Getting Real: Opening Out On RealityThe Poppy Trail: Repeating History; The Pen in the Den: The Beat Goes On.
- Poppy and Popcorn: Finding the O in MovieTraffic Jam: Drugs Were Just the Beginning; Index.