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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
(Englisch)
De Quincey, Thomas

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Excerpt: ...became familiar with their wishes, their difficulties, and their opinions. Sometimes there might be heard murmurs of discontent, but far oftener expressions on the countenance, or uttered in words, of patience, hope, and tranquillity. And taken generally, I must say that, in this point at least, the poor are more philosophic than the rich - that they show a more ready and cheerful submission to what they consider as irremediable evils or irreparable losses. Whenever I saw occasion, or could do it without appearing to be intrusive, I joined their parties, and gave my opinion upon the matter in discussion, which, if not always judicious, was always received indulgently. If wages were a little higher or expected to be so, or the quartern loaf a little lower, or it was reported that onions and butter were expected to fall, I was glad; yet, if the contrary were true, I drew from opium some means of consoling myself. For opium (like the bee, that extracts its materials indiscriminately from roses and from the soot of chimneys) can overrule all feelings into compliance with the master-key. Some of these rambles led me to great distances, for an opium-eater is too happy to observe the motion of time; and sometimes in my attempts to steer homewards, upon nautical principles, by fixing my eye on the pole-star, and seeking ambitiously for a north-west passage, instead of circumnavigating all the capes and head-lands I had doubled in my outward voyage, I came suddenly upon such knotty problems of alleys, such enigmatical entries, and such sphynx's riddles of streets without thoroughfares, as must, I conceive, baffle the audacity of porters and confound the intellects of hackney-coachmen. I could almost have believed at times that I must be the first discoverer of some of these terræ incognitæ, and doubted whether they had yet been laid down in the modern charts of London. For all this, however, I paid a heavy price in distant years, when...
Thomas de Quincey, geb. am 15. August 1785 in der Nähe von Manchester (England) als Sohn eines wohlhabenden Vaters, entlief im Alter von sechzehn Jahren der Schule, studierte später in Oxford und pflegte seine literarischen Sympathien zu den Seeschülern (nach dem Lake District in Cumberland benannt) Coleridge, Wordsworth und Southey. 1817 heiratete er Margaret Simpson, mit der er acht Kinder hatte. Die Inspirationsquelle Thomas de Quinceys für seine Dichtkunst und die Niederschrift seiner Träume war das Leben im Rausche des Opiums.


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