Murder considered as one of the fine arts

• The son of Opium
• "I took it, and in an hour, Oh Heavans ! What a revulsion ! What an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit 1 What an apocalypse of the world within me. What had opened before me -- an abyss of divine enjoyment suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea for all human woes. Here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered" (from Confessions of an English Opium Eater) Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)
• Solo presté atención a De Quincey cuando supe de sus adicciones y terribles vinculos: "De Quincey was addicted to opium from his youth for the rest of his life. His influence on such writers as Poe and Baudelaire, and a number of readers tempted to experiment with opium, has been immense and notorious."