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# Confessions of an English Opium Eater
- URL: https://keithhayden.net/confessions-of-an-english-opium-eater/
- Published: 2024-12-05T13:02:08.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-27T15:32:45.000Z
- Author: Keith Hayden

An extremely well-written 1820 memoir about a British man and his addiction to opium.

Started: Nov 2024

Finished: 26 Dec 

### 26 Dec 24

Book should have been called "Biography of an Opium-Eater".

It's advertised as a memoir about the author's addiction to opium, however, those parts are only at the beginning and end. Most of it is a rather dull account of a man from an average background who became selectively homeless after deciding to quit school at Oxford.

A colorful account of life in 19th century England from the eyes of the self-proclaimed "Pope" of Opium-Eating, but not very exciting or memorable.

### 25 Dec 24

"...the less you understand of a language, the more sensible you are to the melody or harshness of its sounds." pg 191

"...most men are disguised by sobriety, and exceedingly disguised...