Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey

Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey

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"The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to conceive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in that time, or, however, of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience..." - Thomas De Quincey

 

An autobiographical walk through the opium addiction of the author from youth to maturity and from opioid induced ecstasy through to misery. 

 

Beautiful copy from 1886