dr_mabeuse
seduce the mind
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Pure said:----
I'm not sure if you know, but Sartre wrote much of his stuff hyped up on legal speed.
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Kerouac too, and Burroughs. Also Graham Greene and Truman Capote, among those who at least admitted it.
W.H.Auden took benzedrine every morning from 1938 onwards for 20 years. When he stopped taking it, he stopped writing.
And interesting article of writers and drugs is here:
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/story.jsp?story=469086