24 minutes agoDrugs and creativity, writers writing under the influence of narcotics
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Musicians and actors are creative people who have almost the same habits. However, when it comes to writers who are also creative, for some reason we do not feel that it is okay for them to have the same habits. Some of the best - known writers who left great deeds have been drug users [...]
Stephen King and his 80s
Stephen King doesn't even try to hide the fact that many of his works are written on cocaine. Besides, he can't even remember writing.
Ken Casey and his LSD club
In 1959, Casey worked as an assistant psychiatrist at a hospital (the memories of that experience were used in part) A Flew Over Nest of Dolls ), where he participated in some experiments. They were part of the research into LSD's influence on the human body. In 1964, he created a genuine psychodelic revolution in the United States.
Jean-Paul Sartre and his diet
According to Annie Cohen-Soal, his daily diet was: 2 packets of cigarettes, a pair of tobacco pipes, 1/4 bottles of alcoholic beverages, 200 amphetamines, 15 grams of aspirin, and about 20 cordran (a mixture of amphetamine and aspirin). The writer died at 74.
Writers in the NEP years
Interestingly: in post-revolution Russia, cocaine was easier to take than a bottle of vodka. There were no rules or laws banning him. It was sold in markets and in cigarette stores. This is probably the origin of the myth that the longest novel Vladimir Mayakovsky ever had was of cocaine.
Charles Dickens
Lewis Carroll
Sigmund Freud and his cocaine studies
Charles Baudelaire and The Club des Hashines
BBC Child Writers
Miss Graham, a former BBC child employee, said that after the first episode of her show, the producer and organiser of the show offered her cocaine. As it turned out, drug use among the BBC's creative team for children was not condemned, but rather appreciated. The directors thought that cocaine helped writers find new and creative ideas.
Mikhail Bulgarkov and Myth Kick
Yes, the writer was addicted to drugs, but he never wrote novels according to the influence of drugs.
