Tag Archive: opium addiction

Aug 10 2012

Thomas De Quincey’s “Confessions of an English Opium Eater”, Part IV Reading (The Pleasures of Opium)



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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Aug 05 2012

A Reading of Thomas De Quincey’s “Confessions of an English Opium Eater” Part III

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Listen to internet radio with L A STEEL SHOW on Blog Talk Radio I begin my reading where DeQuincey describes the sorrow of leaving his friend Ann, a fifteen year old prostitute, and his promise to return to her as he departed London on his quest for financial help from several friends and Jewish Money …

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Jul 27 2012

Reading of Thomas DeQuincey’s “Confessions of an English Opium Eater” Part II



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

A Reading of Thomas De Quincey’s “Confessions of an English Opium Eater” Part 1

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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