Name great works of literature inspired or conceived by drugs harder than alcohol.
Name great works of literature inspired or conceived by drugs harder than alcohol
The Doors of Perception and The Teachings of don Juan
he said GREAT works
Gravitys Rainbow
Nietzsche was constantly consuming massive quantities of victorian era "pharmaceuticals" to keep his headaches in check
Marcus Aurelius and many of the Roman were opium addicts
Looking For Alaska
So let me get this right
"hard drugs" just mean drugs that will get you more prison time than others
OP here. So far no one has fulfilled the thread's request.
I read GR. It's better than most burger pomo, but it's still yawningly American.
Peter Pan
it's about a little boy who never grew up
hard means addictive and debilitating.
I think he means drugs that do more than just lower social inhibitions and make the room spin a little. Alcohol doesn't really do much of anything to you in terms of altering consciousness. It's a lot closer to a sleeping pill than to LSD.
Atlas Shrugged
benzos and opiates barely alter your consciousness more than alcohol yet they're called "hard drugs"
alcohol is both of those
alcohol won't do the shit crack or heroin does
The only pills Ayn Rand was taking were red.
Alcohol withdrawal can literally kill you
How many people do you know who suck cock for beer?
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Whether drugs are "hard" or "soft" depends on how addictive they are. Nothing to do with to what degree they alter your consciousness while active. Nicotine is a hard drug. Caffeine is more hard a drug than THC or LSD.
Just your mother
Hard and soft refers to degree of harmfulness, not "addictiveness", brainlet. The latter isn't even in any way objectively measurable metric since it's entirely personal.
meets your criteria nonetheless:
>On the writing of Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon reportedly told Siegel, "I was so fucked up while I was writing it . . . that now I go back over some of those sequences and I can't figure out what I could have meant."
If that's the case alcohol is easily a hard drug since it's on par with other "hard drugs" in terms of toxicity
Shakespeare's dramas
Still a shit book, so no it doesn't.
What drugs if any is he confirmed to use?
Damn straight
simple.wikipedia.org
>Hard drugs are drugs that lead to physical addiction.
>Soft drugs are not thought to cause physical addiction.
collinsdictionary.com
>a strong, usually illegal, drug which is likely to cause addiction
>a potent drug, such as heroin or cocaine, that usually leads to physical or psychological dependency
dictionary.com
>an addicting drug capable of producing severe physical or psychological dependence, as heroin.
I've got some terrible news, user. You were the brainlet all along.
it is rumored that Coleridge wrote Kublai Khan while nodding off on opium
Yes it will, the only difference is that because of reasons, it is cheap and easily available, whereas most other drugs are "controlled", which tends to massively inflate their prices.
Naked Lunch
>simple .wikipedia.org
>You were a brainlet all along.
en.wikipedia.org
>More harmful drugs are called "hard drugs"[2] and less harmful
>More and less
>Not all
>It is unrelated to their actual status, which is determined by addictiveness.
In medicine and chemistry hard drugs are the ones that are difficult or impossible to metabolize completely, you fucking contrarian retard. Literally had an exam on this 2 years ago. Kill yourself.
In the dictionary they're not.
I'm curious, how is morphine more difficult to metabolise than for example thc or lsd
Scarlet Begonias->Fire in the Mountain