Thomas Fensch
Alice in Acidland
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If you love Lewis Carroll, or if you remember the hippie days -- the flower power generation -- of the 1960s, you'll love Alice in Acidland. Was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland really a drug trip? Men who cleaned top hats in the days of Charles Dodgson's England used solutions of mercury, which caused brain damage: thus mad as a hatter. Could the caterpillar really have been smoking something hallucinogenic in his waterpipe? Charles Dodgson may have passed Thomas DeQuincey on the streets of London -- after all -- this was generally the same era that DeQuincey wrote Confessions of an English Opium…
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If you love Lewis Carroll, or if you remember the hippie days -- the flower power generation -- of the 1960s, you'll love Alice in Acidland. Was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland really a drug trip? Men who cleaned top hats in the days of Charles Dodgson's England used solutions of mercury, which caused brain damage: thus mad as a hatter. Could the caterpillar really have been smoking something hallucinogenic in his waterpipe? Charles Dodgson may have passed Thomas DeQuincey on the streets of London -- after all -- this was generally the same era that DeQuincey wrote Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Originally published in 1970, Alice in Acidland suggests that Alice's experiences - -and the curiouser and curiouser animals that she encounters -- echo the LSD trips of the hippie 1960s - -and could easily have been visualized by Thomas DeQuincey and the mad hatters of Lewis Carroll's time . . . . The author suggests this all with tongue-firmly-in-cheek. We think.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-930751-25-8
- EAN: 9780930751258
- Produktnummer: 1348059
- Verlag: New Century Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 152 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.2 cm 397 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 397
Über den Autor
Thomas Fensch is the author of 35 books of nonfiction. He has published five books on John Steinbeck; two each on James Thurber and Theodor Dr. Seuss Geisel; one each on Ernest Hemingway and Oskar Schindler; and a full biography of John Howard Griffin, author of Black Like Me. He has also published a variety of other nonfiction titles.
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