LIVRO The Opium (English Edition) PDF Logan Gaines

“In after years Coleridge assured me that he never could read anything he had written without a sense of overpowering disgust. Revertingto my own case, which was pretty nearly the same as this, there was,however, this difference–that at times, when I had slept at moreregular hours for several nights consecutively, and had armed myselfby a sudden increase of the opium for a few days running, I recoveredat times a remarkable glow of jovial spirits. In some such artificialrespites, it was, from my usual state of distress, and purchased at aheavy price of subsequent suffering, that I wrote the greater part ofthe opium ‘Confessions’ in the autumn of 1821.