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… Dionysus was all on fire to get us up to the Abbey, and tugged at our arms. | ““ Now Di,” said Hermes, “ you know it’s wrong to pull at people like that. It’s one of the rules,” he explained to Lou, “ not to interfere with people. Big Lion says that every one would get on all right if only he were left alone.” He seemed to think the statement required explana- tion. ‘“‘ Cypris is reading Gibbon to us this week ; and she shows us how all the trouble came from people meddling with other people’s business.” I shouted with laughter. “Gibbon?” I cr…
1922 · PDF PAGE 143
…or the rest of the story. The vice-consul smiled—indulgently, as I thought. “I admit we have some experience,” he said slowly, “of young people like yourselves getting into various kinds of trouble. One can’t expect every one to know all the tricks; and besides, if I understand correctly, you're on your honeymoon.” I admitted the fact with: a somewhat embarrassed smile. It occurred to me that honeymoon couples were traditionally objects of not unkindly ridicule from people in a less blesséd condition. “Quite so,” replied the vice-consul. “I’m n…
1922 · PDF PAGE 344
…e Diary of a Drug Fiend Object of familiarising the mind with ideas which normally excited. The whole system of King Lamus was to enable people to take no notice, that is, no emotional notice, of anything soever in life. A great deal of the fascination of drugs arises from the fuss that is made about them; the focusing of the attention upon them. Absinthe, forbidden in France, Switzerland, and Italy, is still sold freely in England, and no one ever met an English absinthe fiend. If any one took it into his head to start a newspaper campaign aga…
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… a hundred half-forgotten incidents bounced into my mind. There were all sorts of stratagems for dodging the regulations, on the part of people who in the ordinary way were plain straightforward law-abiding citizens. “Of course, we must have restrictions about love and drink and drugs. It is quite obvious how frightfully people would abuse their liberty if they had it.” “I’m sorry to have to disagree,’ said Lamus. “ And as you know, I’ve got into endless trouble of one sort or another for holding the views I do. But I’m afraid I do honestly thi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 299
…re to eat sawdust. A man might be constituted so that he liked it. And as long as his peculiarity doesn’t damage or interfere with other people, there’s no reason why he shouldn’t be left alone. But if it is the man’s fixed belief that sawdust eating is essential to human happiness ; if he attributes almost everything that happens either to the effects of eating it or not eating it ; if he imagines that most of the people he meets are also sawdust-eaters, and above all, if he thinks that the salvation of the world depends entirely upon making l…
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350 The Diary of a Drug Fiend warehouse for other people’s wives. If I might hazard a guess, however, your wife’s discovered what her own will is, and has gone off to do it.” “Qh, damnation,” said I. “‘ Here, you know, I say I can’t allow that sort of thing!” The Big Lion turned his sternest gaze upon me. “Now, Sir Peter,” he said incisively, ‘ pull yourself together. You've only just discovered your own will, and you naturally want to be let alone to do it. And yet, at the very first opportunity, you butt in and want to interfere with your own…
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First Aid 267 We drove back to London, and had tea on the way in a cottage where the people seemed to know our friends very well. It was kept by a little old man and his wife who had the air of being family retainers. The cottage stood well away from the road in grounds of its own. Two mighty yew trees stood one on either side of the gate. Lala told us that the place belonged to the Order of which King Lamus was the head, and that he occasionally sent people down here for certain parts of his training which could only be carried out in solitude…
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…ed we might get tired of coco, ‘grateful and com- forting’ as it is. So the dear old thing sent us some heroin. And there are still some people who tell us that life is not worth living!” “Ever try it?’’ 1 asked, and delayed the answer with a kiss. | When the worst was over, she told me that she had only taken it once, and then, in a very minute dose, which had had no effect on her as far as she knew. “That’s all right,” I said, from the height of my superior knowledge. “It’s all a question of estimating the physiological dose. It’s very fine i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 188
… brawling in church |” A flash of the old Peter Pan! September 8 The woman says it’s Tuesday, and we're running awfully short. Why can’t people keep their promises ? I’m sure Mabel said Sunday.
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…oared to the primeval peaks that towered above the train. They flowed across the limpid lakes, they revelled with the raging Rhone. Many people have the idea that the danger of drugs lies in the fact that one is tempted to fly to them for refuge whenever one is a little bored or depressed or annoyed. That is true, of course; but if it stopped there, only a small class of people would stand in real danger. For example, this brilliant morning, with the sun sparkling on the snow and the water, the whole earth ablush with his glory, the pure keen a…
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…uld it not be the same with heroin? It has been observed actually that addicts seem to be immune to most diseases which afflict ordinary people. 16. I take it because of its being prohibited. I decline being treated like a silly schooboy when I’m a responsible man. (Note: Then don’t behave like a silly school- boy. Why let the stupidity of governments drive you into taking the drug against your will ?—K. L.) 17. My friend likes me to take it with her. 18. My ability to take it shows my superiority over other people.
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…nd it had put him off the business personally, but he was glad to say it hadn’t soured his nature, and he took a real pleasure in seeing people so ideally happy as we were. The only thing, he said, that made him a little un- easy and discontented was that he hadn’t got in touch with the people who ran the Gatto Fritto, which was an extremely exciting and dangerous kind of night club which indulged in pleasures of so esoteric a kind that no other place in Europe had anything to compare with it,
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…r at my wits’ end when I saw you,” he went on. “I’m on the trail of a very dangerous man who has got into the confidence of some English people living in Capri. That’s where you're going, isn’t it ? ” “ Yes,”’ we said, feeling ourselves of international importance. “‘ Well, it’s like this. If I turn up in Capri, which is a very small place, without a particularly good excuse, people will look at me and talk about me, and if they look too hard and talk too much, it’s ten to one I’m spotted,.not necessarily for what I am, but as a stranger of sus…
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…at you immediately killed any such ‘pernicious suggestion’ by a counter-suggestion based on my positive statement, from experience, that people of strong character and high intelligence like yourself and Sir Peter—to whom please give my most cordial greetings |—were perfectly well able to use these things in moderation as one does soap. “ But, apart from this, do you find that the life of a ‘Heroine’ makes you abnormally ‘suggestible ?’ “ As you know, I object to the methods of Coué and Baudouin. They ask us deliberately to abandon free will an…
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…he result at once,” she went on. ‘“‘ You have to be born into it, married with it, and dead from it before you understand it.: Different people are different. But it always takes some months at least before you get rid of that stupid nuisance—life. As long as you have animal passions, you are an animal. How disgusting it is to think of eating and loving and all those appetities, like cattle | Breathing itself would be beastly if one knew one were doing it. How intolerable life would be to people of
1922 · PDF PAGE 126
…his very full day left us perfectly fresh, murmuring through half-closed lips the magic sentence :— “ Dolce far niente.” The majority of people seem to stumble through this world without any conception of the possibilities of enjoyment. It is, of course, a matter of temperament. But even the few who can appreciate the language of Shelley, Keats and Swinburne, look on those con- ceptions as Utopian. Most people acquiesce in the idea that the giddy exaltation of Prometheus Unbound, for example, is an imaginary feeling. I suppose, in fact, that on…
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…ary piety would class as a virtue. Haidée here has got the same idea.” She nodded serenely. . ‘“‘I had no idea,” she said, ‘‘ that those people had got so much sense. I’ve always thought of them as tangled up with religious ideas. I understand now. Yes, it’s the life of holiness, if you have to go to the trouble of putting it in the terms of morality, as I suppose you English people have to. I feel that con- tact of any sort, even with myself, contaminates me. I was the chief of sinners in my time, in the English sense of the word. Now I’ve for…
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…er and have their things packed and leave them in the cloak room at Victoria. Lala, ’phone for reserve places and a cabin for these good people on the boat. London’s no place for us—too many philanthropists about seeking whom they may devour. Ring up Dupont and have him send in dinner for five for seven o'clock. We'll catch the ten o'clock and be in Telepylus sabse qelds 4. a3 Maisie was already out of the studio and Lala at the telephone before he had finished talking. He turned to us with the same affectation of hustle. “Here, young people,” …
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…ain of being able to stop in an instant when the peril were perceived. We could descend perhaps three thousand feet in ten minutes where people without that training would have had to go down step by step on the rope, and perhaps found themselves benighted in a hurricane in consequence. “But the best of it was this: I was in command of a Himalayan expedition some years ago; and the coolies were afraid to traverse a snow slope which overhung a terrific cliff. I called on them to watch me, flung myself on the snow head first, swept down like a sa…
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…use he includes every individual in his idea of himself. He can’t feel free as long as there are slaves about. Of course, there are some people whose nature it is to be slaves; they must be left to serve. But there are lots of us who are kings and don’t know it ; who suffer from the delusion that they ought to bow to public opinion, all sorts of alien domination. He spends his life fighting to emancipate people in this false subjection, because they are parts of himself. He has no ideas about morality. His sense of honour, even, means nothing t…