I'm sure that Holmes took opium - I remember vaguely (I haven't read
Holmes since chilhood) one episode where to his horror Watson finds
him in an opium den in London.
A
>Sherlock Holmes, "The 10% Solution", Sherlock wrestles his demon,
>cocaine in a 10%
>solution of water, injected directly. Even Dr. Watson gets alienated
>as Sherlock
>journeys to bury his habit once and for all time.
>
>Recall the earlier episodes when Holmes, about exit his flat in hot
>pursuit, would
>toss over his shoulder, "Watson, the needle."
>
>one toke over the line,
>Frank
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
>poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of roger day
>Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 10:17 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: one more with feeling - Life is a drug....
>
>
>I started compiling a list of artists whose work has been influenced
>by drugs but
>gave up when I realised it extended to fictional characters, some of
>high repute
>and character. Step forward Sherlock Holmes, opium fiend. But then
>wasn't everyone
>in the Victorian era? I'd be interested in knowing why opium became
>stigmatised -
>something vaguely related to the prohibition of alcohol, maybe? Just
>look where
>*that* got us.
>
>Whether these authors (or characters) would have been physically better off
>without any sort of habit is debatable, but literature would be a
>sight poorer if
>they had kicked their habits.
>
>A friend of mine bought some E at Glastonbury; an hour later, his
>hang-over was
>cured.
>
>Roger.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "mindfight" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 16:12
>Subject: Re: one more with feeling - Life is a drug....
>
>
>> E is illegal and therefore not MDMA but rather lethal mixtures. MDMA is
>> still no Aspirin, but it has been around as a drug since 1912, and came back
>> to light, as a means of therapy, whene LSD was stigmatised. The continued
>> mystification, condemnation and categorisation as 'simply bad' can only
>> increase the interest, really. Banging on the dogma drum is a call for
>> intoxication, not only in rebellion, but simply to get away from the sound
>> of rule.
>>
>> Martin's words make me want to investigte the phenomenon. Ermiminia's make
>> me want to take a drug, simply in opposition. The Church and the
>> Marxist-Leninist are some of the most busy indoctrinators i have heard of in
>> my short life; and they represent, to me as a child of the 70s & 80s, the
>> same authoritarian conservative and damaging oppressive and suppressive
>> regimes as do the drug barons. Together with the real conservatives, the
>> mutated liberals, now capitalists, these factions rule the world with their
>> better-knowing and superior attitudes that are manifest in such hypocritical
>> outrages against humanity as Ariel Sharon and the Northern Alliance's CIA
>> joint-venture 'Heroin Inc.'. !Long Live Power and the Glory!
>>
>> jmp
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Martin J. Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 11:31 AM
>> Subject: Re: one more with feeling - Life is a drug....
>>
>>
>> > Erminia backchanneled me to insist that taking E can in medical fact lead
>> to
>> > sudden death & that my words might seem to be a recommendation.(I took
>> that
>> > risk a few times back in the early 90s when medical information was
>> > sparser). She's right & I advise any impressionable souls on the list to
>> > take no drugs at all, especially not such dangerous ones as E. But I'm
>> > confident that most will do what they want to whatever I or she or whoever
>> > says. She also regrets recommending 2 aspirin per day against heart
>> trouble,
>> > which can lead to fatal bleeding; a mini or half aspirin a day is
>> > recommended (unless you have a tendency to stomach ulcers, I would add.
> > Try
>> > Aspirin Protect, which was developed for such a case.)
>> > Enjoy the crossing into 02 anyway, all the best
>> > Martin
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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