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

Last Testaments

Francine Prose

Players Club

Rebecca Lemon

Fabled Powers

Sven Birkerts

Map

Indigenous Intoxicants

Miscellany

Smoking kills.

“A permanent state of complete debasement and prostration.”

Take some opium and call me in the morning.

Oscar Wilde is offered a miner’s supper.

Necessity is the mother of drug invention.

Freud’s secret to a happy marriage: cocaine.

Charles II of Navarre experiences the burning sensation of alcohol.

Aldous Huxley’s LSD death trip.

“Have you ever used Derbisol?”

The founding father of American whiskey.

Voting against one’s alcoholic interests.

Shakespeare lists the things that drink provokes.

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

Americans don’t drink like they used to.

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

Hallucinogens and Bacon’s Rebellion.

Richard Nixon under the influence.

Voices In Time

Better than a Gallon of Gall

1842 | Springfield, IL

Nauseous Puddle Water

1674 | London

Crowd Control

1833 | Maryland

Flight Plan

1819 | London

Ye Shall Be As Gods

c. 3760 BC | Eden

Crack Isn’t Addictive, Now, Is It?

1992 | San Francisco

Picking Up the Tab

1963 | New York City

Here’s Looking at You, Kid

1910 | Ireland

Darker Than the Swoon of Sin

c. 1900 | Dublin

Pour Another One

c. 720 | China

Dry Ship, Wet Ocean

1836 | Pacific Ocean

Tipped Off

1931 | Seattle

Hard Times

c. 700 | Baghdad

Work Is the Curse of the Drinking Classes

1844 | England

Crashing the Party

416 BC | Athens

Some Like It Hot

c. 1600 | Aleppo

In Good Company

1778 | London

Cease and Desist

1604 | London

To Spite the Devil

1530 | Veste Coburg

Drunkard’s Dream

c. 650 BC | Paros

Lord of Misrule

c. 1628 | Merrymount

Mission Statement

c. 1867 | Paris

The Milk and Sperm of Kindness

c. 1843 | Indian Ocean

Bleeding a Poppy

1997 | Connecticut

Intervention

1801 | Baltimore

Sounds of the Second Coming

c. 1949 | Mexico

The Vision Thing

c. 1095 | Europe

Withdrawal Symptoms

1954 | Los Angeles

The Damsel with a Dulcimer

1816 | Highgate

Drowning the Conscience

1890 | Yasnaya Polyana

Exploring an Alternate Universe

1943 | Basel

Progress Report

1919 | Atlanta

Are You There God? It’s Me, John

1873 | Bristol

Twelve-Step Program

1877 | London

Staging a Symphony

1980 | Buckinghamshire

Reconstructing the Hallucination

2001 | Oelwein, IA

Wrinkle in Time

c. 1855 | Poughkeepsie, NY

Under the Influence

1843 | London

High on Life

1861 | Amherst, MA

Consumer Report

1822 | London

Baby Wants His Bottle

1535 | Lyon

Charts and Graphs

Gross Domestic Consumption

Playlist

Drinking on the Job

Potent Potables

Strong Constitutions

Kicking the Habit

Cooked Up

Prohibition

Morning-After Mixology

Contributors

Conversations

Theognis & Jack London

Stephen Crane & William S. Burroughs

John Keats & Raymond Chandler

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