Paul Bauer’s Reviews > The English Opium Eater > Status Update

I knew De Quincey was fascinated by opium and murder but had no idea his depravity was far worse: He was a bibliophile. "I could not but smile internally at the fair prospect I had of congregating a library which no man had read but myself." Morrison describes rock bottom: "He was entirely indisposed to 'spend upon a tailor', what he had 'destined for a bookseller.'"