Pipe Dreams - The Drug Experience in Literature Anthologies Pathetic Literature represents not so

Pathetic Literature represents not so much a collection as it does an ethos: ‘almost a poem

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his pataphysical supersession of metaphysics would influence everyone from Marcel Duchamp and Boris Vian to Umberto Eco and Jean Baudrillard

This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan / ISBN 9780571330850 / 298-page paperback from Faber & Faber

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Pipe Dreams - The Drug Experience in Literature Anthologies Pathetic Literature represents not soPipe Dreams: The Drug Experience in Literature, edited and with an introduction by Gilbert Alter Gilbert ISBN 9781587750267 428 page paperback from Coyote Arts (formerly Asylum Arts) *** From antiquity to the present, people have sought artificial paradise in the stimulations and insights afforded by the use of intoxicants. Famous literary figures have often been the first to experiment with little known drugs, and to champion their unique fascination