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finished Suspiria De Profundis, far loftier and melodramatic compared to his Confessions which at times was riveting and at other times obnoxious. Absurdly funny guy, intentional or not, just absolute nutcase.

holy shit Dario Argento reference

only De Quincey would spend an entire chapter explaining ancient printing techniques, lamenting on alchemy and chemistry, and recalling a near death experience to state that opium has alighted his memory

Suspiria de Profundis contains some of his most romantic lamentations but also his loftiest writing

Suspiria De Profundis is somehow even better than Confessions

ends his confessions lying about not taking opium anymore and lamenting on how great it still is. goated.

he just fuckin gets it

his mind is amazing

(dreams that went to the) "depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had reascended. This I do not dwell upon; because the state of gloom which attended these gorgeous spectacles, amounting at last to utter darkness, as of some suicidal despondency, cannot be approached by words."

Omg, I can very much relate! lol

"But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper."

oh to be a 18th century opium addict poet

oh, this made me laugh!

"I did not press him even when his course of argument seemed open to objection; not to mention that a man who talks nonsense, even though “with no view to profit,” is not altogether the most agreeable partner in a dispute, whether as opponent or respondent."

so insanely excited for this

oh man, the page long paragraphs-can i please blink? lol