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The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean
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Author
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Fitz Hugh Ludlow. Stephen Rachman, ed.
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Publisher
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Rutgers
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paperback
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8.5
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5.5
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ISBN
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9780813538693
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Pages/Publication Date
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314/2006
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Daedalus Item Code
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30203
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Description
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First published in 1857, The Hasheesh Eater was the first full-length American example of drug literature and became a cult classic among Beat writers of the 1950s and 60s and the San Francisco counterculture of the 1970s. Fitz-Hugh Ludlow was a recent graduate of Union College in Schenectady, New York, when he began consuming large quantities of hashish, which was a legal remedy for lockjaw at the time. Ludlow vividly recorded his hashish-induced visions, experiences, adventures, and insights, describing a psychedelic journey that led to extended reflections on religion, philosophy, medicine, and culture. In this scholarly edition, editor Stephen Rachman positions Ludlow's enduring work as both a chronicle of drug use and also as a window into the budding American bohemian literary scene.
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