Research Catalog

Title

White rabbit : a psychedelic reader / edited by John Miller and Randall Koral.

Publication

San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Miller, John, 1959-
• Koral, Randall
• Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection wid

Description

xvi, 282 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The broad spectrum of writing included in White Rabbit neither condones nor condemns drug use, but instead examines the vast cache of world literature about drugs--as written by drug users, about drug users, and about the drugs themselves. This comprehensive anthology allows the adventurous reader to experience the full range of pharmacopoeia, form opium and moonshine to yage and ecstasy, as captured by some of the world's most imaginative writers of fiction and nonfiction. Jim Hogshire waxes poetic on the reptilian effects of DM cough syrup. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle explains, via his most famous character, Sherlock Holmes, the benefits of "a seven-per-cent solution" of cocaine. The Fang people of northwestern Africa relate the religious significance of ingesting the eboka bush. And Lewis Carroll sends little Alice down the rabbit hole in the classic story from which this anthology gets its title. Whether ecstatic or hungover, addicted or recovering, the writers in White Rabbit run the gamut of drug experience. Their often incredible and always eloquent stories provide a dizzying, stream-of-consciousness read, making White Rabbit a mind-opener in its own right."--book jacket.

Subjects

• Anthologies
• Narcotics
• Literary collections
• Drugs > Literary collections

Genre/Form

• Literary collections
• Anthologies.

Note

• A duplicate copy of this title was part of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection, but was not retained.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

In search of yage / William S. Burroughs -- Westward / Peter Matthiessen -- Man with the golden arm / Nelson Algren -- Opium / Florence Nightingale -- Palm-wine drinkard / Amos Tutuola -- Drinking absinthe with Van Gogh / Paul Gauguin -- Electric cough syrup acid test / Jim Hogshire -- Detox diary / Jean Cocteau -- Achieve of, the mastery of the thing / Laurie Colwin -- Sign of four / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Philip K. Dick -- Soma / Rig Veda -- Ferrari / Miles Davis -- Doors of perception / Aldous Huxley -- Eboka / African fang legends -- Double room / Charles Baudelaire -- Kathmandu interlude / Terence McKenna -- Down the rabbit-hole / Lewis Carroll -- When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro / Hunter S. Thompson -- Hasheesh / Bayard Taylor -- Taking of majoun / Paul Bowles -- Comedy of thirst / Arthur Rimbaud -- Wormwood / Marie Corelli -- Psycho-delic / Tom Wolfe -- Psychedelic sessions / Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, & Richard Alpert -- Confessions of an English opium-eater / Thomas de Quincey -- Mister Morpheus / Roger Gilbert-Lecomte -- Coca / Sigmund Freud -- Postcards from the edge / Carrie Fisher -- Mystery of Edwin Drood / Charles Dickens -- On hashish and mental alienation / J. Moreau de Tours -- LSD / Alan Watts -- Opium nights / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- On ecstasy / Sean Elder -- Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde -- Story of Caliph Hakem / Gerard de Nerval -- Blood of a wig / Terry Southern -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Author biographies.

ISBN

0811806669 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^94007317^

OCLC

• 30030986
• SCSB-11546144

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library