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It professes to tear away the decent drapery of convention and present the reader with the record of a remarkable period in the authors life, beginning when he ran away from school at the age of 17 and spent several. Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasur and pains of worshipping at the church of opium. From the pleasures of opium it is so long since i first took opium that if it had been a trifling incident in my life i might have forgotten its date. It was criticized for presenting a too positive and too enticing picture of the opium experience to readers. Confessions of an english opiumeater introduction to.
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