>>_The 7% Solution_ (referring to Holmes' cocaine injections)
My mistake (10%), you are right, Martin (7%).
I shudder anymore even when I see a hypodermic needle on TV. Yet, I am who I am,
have experienced what I have experienced, and I'm alive and well, have moved on.
Various drugs have provided glimpses into other forms of consciousness. Forms to
access in more permanent(?) fashion through poetry? Seems more lasting anyway,
more viable in the world. But forms first glimpsed or aided by one drug or
another. I don't exalt it, I don't call it anything, just is or was a place I go
or have gone. Visions are more valuable than the vehicle. Life is the most
powerful because it combines vision/vehicle. My two cents.
- Frank
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Subject: Re: one more with feeling - Life is a drug....
Before I go ~ wasn't Sherlock a cocaine freak like Freud? As I remember,
opium is associated with crime in the Holmes stories, as in the Victorian
era in general (though many used it in the form of laudanum), which may or
may not be connected with subliminal guilt about turning on the Chinese
nation to papaverum somniferum (which I've never had the opportunity to try,
sigh) & even fighting 2 wars about the British right to peddle to the
heathen Chinee. There's quite an amusing crime novel about Holmes & Freud,
btw, _The 7% Solution_ (referring to Holmes' cocaine injections). I'd heard,
as Martin Mindfight says, that E is largely adulterated nowadays, one reason
why I stopped taking it in the early 90s. That's the trouble with any drugs
you don't grow or pick yourself. For the all-time worst scenario concerning
drug distribution read P.K.Dick's _A Scanner Darkly_.
Martin
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