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"The time has come," The Walrus said,

"To speak of other things. Like shoes and ships and ceiling wax, and cabbages and kings! And while the sea is boiling bright, and weather pigs have wings, kaloo kalay we're off today! Like Cabbages and Kings!"

 

Sorry, but I had to express myself. I love that little song thing.

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Have any of you read the book, Alice in Wonderland? It's really quite good.

I want to! But I haven't been to the library in ages. I wanna read it because Lewis Caroll was on LSD when he wrote it.

 

I would like ot see the actual side afftets of drug induced literature.

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Alice in Wonderland and Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass are longer and use a somewhat outdated form of English, but the description and the rhymes sprinkled throughout it are alot of fun I wouldn't say it was darker than the movie though. The movie had more modern english and was slightly more sanitized, but the story was originally intended for children. If you want dark children's novels, read the original Grimm fairy tales (cinderella's sisters cut off parts of their feet so they would fit in the shoes). As for authors on drugs ... Edgar Allan Poe has some brilliant peices, and it's thought that he was on opium when he wrote them.

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Yeah Poe was into Laudanum I think, which was basically a medical mixture of alcohol and opium. It's still legally available on prescription, though I would imagine that it's almost never proscribed for anyone.

 

As for books written under the influence that I like... well, as far as I know it's impossible to write anything whilst 'on' LSD or any other psychedelic, but almost everything by Ernest Hemingway, and Hunter S. Thompson's 'The Rum Diary' absolutely reek of alcohol. I love those two authors :)

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