Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
The peasants have vodka, the educated young people, shut out from activity, waste themselves in impossible dreams and visions and are crippled by theories; Jews have sprung up and are amassing money, and all the rest give themselves up to debauchery.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)
Eating’s gross, isn’t it? In the abstract, I mean. When you’re used to hyperspace recharging stations, to sunlight and cosmic rays, when most of the beauty you’ve known lies in a great machine’s heart, it’s hard to see the appeal of using bones that poke from spit-coated gums to mash things that grew in dirt into a paste that will fit down the wet
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Ten Drugs- thomas Hager
People have different diseases, doctors hold different ideas about those diseases, and diseases carry different meanings in society
No drug is good, no drug is bad, for every drug is both
Poppy seeds- over 10,000 years ago- in today’s Syria
Opium was appealing because it always pitched the body while romancing the imagination... See more
People have different diseases, doctors hold different ideas about those diseases, and diseases carry different meanings in society
No drug is good, no drug is bad, for every drug is both
Poppy seeds- over 10,000 years ago- in today’s Syria
Opium was appealing because it always pitched the body while romancing the imagination... See more
This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world.