The Romans of the Decadence (detail), by Thomas Couture, 1847. Musée d'Orsay.

The Romans of the Decadence (detail), by Thomas Couture, 1847. Musée d’Orsay.

Intoxication

Volume VI, Number 1 | winter 2012

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Alms for Oblivion

Lewis H. Lapham

Players Club

Rebecca Lemon

Fabled Powers

Sven Birkerts

Last Testaments

Francine Prose

Map

Indigenous Intoxicants

Miscellany

Take some opium and call me in the morning.

Charles II of Navarre experiences the burning sensation of alcohol.

Voting against one’s alcoholic interests.

“A permanent state of complete debasement and prostration.”

Freud’s secret to a happy marriage: cocaine.

“Have you ever used Derbisol?”

“An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind.”

Smoking kills.

Richard Nixon under the influence.

Oscar Wilde is offered a miner’s supper.

Edgar Allen Poe’s desperate attempt to escape his memories.

Shakespeare lists the things that drink provokes.

Necessity is the mother of drug invention.

The founding father of American whiskey.

Hallucinogens and Bacon’s Rebellion.

Aldous Huxley’s LSD death trip.

Americans don’t drink like they used to.

Voices In Time

Withdrawal Symptoms

1954 | Los Angeles

Picking Up the Tab

1963 | New York City

Exploring an Alternate Universe

1943 | Basel

Sounds of the Second Coming

c. 1949 | Mexico

Hard Times

c. 700 | Baghdad

Baby Wants His Bottle

1535 | Lyon

Under the Influence

1843 | London

Nauseous Puddle Water

1674 | London

Crashing the Party

416 BC | Athens

Are You There God? It’s Me, John

1873 | Bristol

Darker Than the Swoon of Sin

c. 1900 | Dublin

Crack Isn’t Addictive, Now, Is It?

1992 | San Francisco

Here’s Looking at You, Kid

1910 | Ireland

High on Life

1861 | Amherst, MA

Lord of Misrule

c. 1628 | Merrymount

Drunkard’s Dream

c. 650 BC | Paros

The Milk and Sperm of Kindness

c. 1843 | Indian Ocean

Flight Plan

1819 | London

Staging a Symphony

1980 | Buckinghamshire

The Damsel with a Dulcimer

1816 | Highgate

Progress Report

1919 | Atlanta

In Good Company

1778 | London

Wrinkle in Time

c. 1855 | Poughkeepsie, NY

Twelve-Step Program

1877 | London

Work Is the Curse of the Drinking Classes

1844 | England

Some Like It Hot

c. 1600 | Aleppo

Crowd Control

1833 | Maryland

Drowning the Conscience

1890 | Yasnaya Polyana

To Spite the Devil

1530 | Veste Coburg

Better than a Gallon of Gall

1842 | Springfield, IL

Dry Ship, Wet Ocean

1836 | Pacific Ocean

Reconstructing the Hallucination

2001 | Oelwein, IA

Ye Shall Be As Gods

c. 3760 BC | Eden

Mission Statement

c. 1867 | Paris

Consumer Report

1822 | London

Bleeding a Poppy

1997 | Connecticut

The Vision Thing

c. 1095 | Europe

Intervention

1801 | Baltimore

Pour Another One

c. 720 | China

Cease and Desist

1604 | London

Tipped Off

1931 | Seattle

Charts and Graphs

Potent Potables

Playlist

Morning-After Mixology

Strong Constitutions

Drinking on the Job

Cooked Up

Gross Domestic Consumption

Kicking the Habit

Prohibition

Contributors

Conversations

Theognis & Jack London

John Keats & Raymond Chandler

Stephen Crane & William S. Burroughs

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