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Aug 10 2012
Listen to internet radio with L A STEEL SHOW on Blog Talk Radio We begin this reading with Thomas De Quincey’s description of the pleasures of opium, he describes his first experiences that began at 19,when he developed a chronic toothache which lasted several weeks. A friend told him about Opium and where to get …
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Jul 27 2012
Listen to internet radio with L A STEEL SHOW on Blog Talk Radio In Part II of my reading of DeQuincey’s great story, he writes about his desparation and homelessness as a young man of 17, and the people who helped him and who he stayed with during his travels. There is an especially poignant …
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Jul 26 2012
Listen to internet radio with L A STEEL SHOW on Blog Talk Radio I first read this work when I was eighteen. It made a memorable impression on me then, because De Quincey was 19 when he began his life long addiction to opium, that was the inspiration to his philosophical and literary works. I …
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Aug 16 2012
Thomas DeQuincey’s”Confessions of an English Opium Eater”, reading Part V
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August 16, 2012
Listen to internet radio with L A STEEL SHOW on Blog Talk Radio Tonight I read the section entitled Introduction to the Pains of Opium and The Pains of Opium. Share
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