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Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean
Fitz Hugh Ludlow: The Hasheesh Eater Fitz Hugh Ludlow: The Hasheesh Eater Fitz Hugh Ludlow: The Hasheesh Eater

Fitz-Hugh ​Ludlow was a recent graduate of Union College in Schenectady, New York, when he vividly recorded his hasheesh-induced visions, experiences, adventures, and insights. During the mid-nineteenth century, the drug was a legal remedy for lockjaw and Ludlow had a friend at school from whom he received a ready supply. He consumed such large quantities at each sitting that his hallucinations have been likened to those experienced by opium addicts. Throughout the book, Ludlow colorfully describes his psychedelic journey that led to extended reflections on religion, philosophy, medicine, and culture. First published in 1857, The Hasheesh Eater was the first full-length American example of drug literature. Yet despite the scandal that surrounded it, the book quickly became a huge success. Since then, it has become a cult classic, first among Beat writers in the 1950s and 1960s, and later with San Francisco Bay area hippies in the 1970s.

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Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2006
360 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780813538693 · ASIN: 0813538696

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