De Quincey
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" ///. The Pains of Opium, Passing over the dissertation on the medicinal properties of opium with which this last chapter of the "Confessions" commences, we are brought to the final scene of DeQuincey's terrible prostration during the years that immediately succeeded his marriage. New and unsuspected symptoms had now begun to assert themselves. At night, when he lay awake in bed, " vast processions " moved visibly before him "in mournful pomp"; and in his sleep a theatre seemed to be opened an...d lighted up, " which presented nightly spectacles of more than earthly splendour. " A funereal melancholy brooded over him ; the sense of space and time was amplified to an extent which became tor- ture; while the minutest incidents of his early life were revived and re-enacted. Then, finally, " the tyranny of the human face began to unfold itself. " The Malay, "a fearful enemy for months, " nightly transported the dreamer into grotesquely frightful surroundings of Asiatic scenery; then Egypt added her monstrous symbols to the scene, and the " cursed crocodile " was the agent of un- speakable horror.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" ///. The Pains of Opium, Passing over the dissertation on the medicinal properties of opium with which this last chapter of the "Confessions" commences, we are brought to the final scene of DeQuincey's terrible prostration during the years that immediately succeeded his marriage. New and unsuspected symptoms had now begun to assert themselves. At night, when he lay awake in bed, " vast processions " moved visibly before him "in mournful pomp"; and in his sleep a theatre seemed to be opened an...d lighted up, " which presented nightly spectacles of more than earthly splendour. " A funereal melancholy brooded over him ; the sense of space and time was amplified to an extent which became tor- ture; while the minutest incidents of his early life were revived and re-enacted. Then, finally, " the tyranny of the human face began to unfold itself. " The Malay, "a fearful enemy for months, " nightly transported the dreamer into grotesquely frightful surroundings of Asiatic scenery; then Egypt added her monstrous symbols to the scene, and the " cursed crocodile " was the agent of un- speakable horror.
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