The hasheesh eater : being passages from the life of a Pythagorean /
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 from whom he received a...
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| Langue: | anglais |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press
©2006.
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| Collection: | Subterranean lives.
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| Accès en ligne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj3qf |
Table des matières:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Selected Bibliography; A Note on the Text; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Night Entrance; Chapter 2: Under the Shadow of Esculapius; Chapter 3: The Kingdom of the Dream; Chapter 4: Cashmere and Cathay by Twilight; Chapter 5: The Hour and the Power of Darkness; Chapter 6: The Mysteries of the Life-sign Gemini; Chapter 7: The Night of Apotheosis; Chapter 8: Vos Non Vobis
- Wherein the Pythagorean is a By-stander; Chapter 9: The Shadow of Bacchus, the Shadow of Thanatos, and the Shadow of Shame.