April’s Reviews > Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings > Status Update

(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, 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."

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

So i am technically reading this version (with other writings), but my primary focus is the Confessions essay. Having read just a few pages so far, i may have to reread this a few times to actually understand a lot of it. I have until November, and this is not my primary read right now, but one of my goals for the year.