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...On an investor call in October, Coca-Cola chief executive James Quincey pointed out that Gen Z consumers, born between roughly 1997 and 2012, spend seven to nine hours a day on a screen but “very little...
...We see this approach, for example, in the confessions of Thomas De Quincey, England’s “opium eater”, who chronicled his laudanum addiction for The London Magazine....
...De Quincey. Huxley. Welsh. These are just a few examples of authors who got wasted on mind-altering substances and then wrote ecstatic books about it....
...The Factory is a source of hope, pride and tension in a city long associated with a progressive, dynamic arts scene (Thomas De Quincey, Norman Foster, Joy Division, The Smiths )....
...After Thomas De Quincey wrote Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, a new genre was born....
...From Thomas De Quincey’s abandoned Oxford Street squat to the baby crawling on the ceiling in Trainspotting, the room becomes an extension of the delirious mind....
...Bate delivers not a long-distance trudge of the kind the poet loved (Thomas De Quincey, his disciple, worked out that Wordsworth’s rambles covered 175,000 miles) but a collage of crisply written, intensively...
...This was the “suction so powerful, felt along radii so vast” that Thomas De Quincey recorded in 1800....
...From Thomas De Quincey, worried that his obsession with that “transcendental pedant” Kant had ruined his life, to DH Lawrence, whose fervent bromance with Bertrand Russell rapidly turned sour, literature...
...In his gloriously gossipy Recollections of the Lake Poets Thomas De Quincey, himself no slouch, asserted that William Wordsworth’s legs, though “pointedly condemned by all female connoisseurs”, had carried...
...Danske Bank chief quits over scandal Thomas Borgen, Danske Bank’s chief executive, resigned this week over one of the largest money-laundering scandals ever uncovered....
...A key character in the novel, Ezra Jennings, probably bi-racial, with “piebald” hair, is an opium user and references Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater....
...The essay collection These Possible Lives presents brief portraits of three real-life metaphysicians: English opium-eater Thomas De Quincey, Romantic poet John Keats and French symbolist Marcel Schwob....
...There is a Thomas De Quincey dilemma that each literary generation, drawn by his luminous insights and poignant self-revelation, is forced to discover....
...The usual suspects are all here: Boswell and Johnson, Wordsworth, De Quincey and Dickens (who concludes the book; there are hints at a sequel)....
...“I’ve always been fascinated by pests like Thomas De Quincey,” he writes, “the way he hiked to the Lake District and attached himself to Wordsworth and Coleridge, before ‘betraying’ them with gossip and...
...Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater The opiate of investors has been central bank liquidity....
...William Wordsworth and Thomas De Quincey’s Westmorland parliamentary campaign of 1818 is a guide for any budding politician. Kansas politics is like something from Anthony Trollope. Or Jonathan Swift....
...Murder as a Fine Art, by David Morrell, Mulholland Books, RRP£13.99, 336 pages Opium eater Thomas De Quincey should never have written that essay about murder; it has made him the chief suspect in a case...
...Sutherland also argues persuasively for the inclusion of certain writers who are not usually treated as novelists: Olaudah Equiano, Thomas De Quincey, and the sexually athletic Victorian memoirist known...
...Perhaps it was the opium talking, but Thomas de Quincey once wrote that an evening in the company of Samuel Coleridge was “like some great river”....
...De Quincey’s stoned ramblings)....
...Lucasta Miller, its editorial director, says: “In the 19th century, essayists such as Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt and Thomas De Quincey found a huge readership, as did George Orwell in the 20th....
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...The English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey By Robert Morrison Weidenfeld & Nicolson £25, 462 pages FT Bookshop price: £20 If he had lived today, Thomas De Quincey, a life-long abuser of...
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