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Blow, candy, Charlie, coke, go, ice, rock, snow, crack. Whatever you call it, thrill seekers have surrendered to cocaine's siren call, paid their toll, and sold their souls. Its embrace can be deadly, a place of no return, the ultimate rush, public enemy number one. From the gutter to the penthouse, inner city to outer burb, from the Third World coca farmer to the executive addict, coke is the lifeblood of a global black economy and an outlaw underground. Coke has also been dark muse, torment, and theme to many of our greatest writers. White Lines gathers these literary thrill seekers in a classic and contemporary snort through the fog- and fear-filled streets of Victorian London to the dance macabre of the post-Vietnam culture of the 1970s, from the couch of Dr. Freud and the bacchanal of Mr. Magus, Aleister Crowley, to the narcotic thrill of fin de siecle casino capitalism, White Lines takes you into illicit and artificial worlds, near wild heavens and then deep, down underground. Selections from writers like Irvine Welsh, Bret Easton Ellis, William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, Kim Wozencraft, Terry Southern, Sigmund Freud, Arthur Conan Doyle, Peter Biskind, and Julia Phillips are featured.
| Drugs and the Writer | 1 | |
| from The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances | 3 | |
| Dr. Lanyon's Narrative | 19 | |
| Uber Coca | 26 | |
| from The Sign of Four | 50 | |
| from Novel with Cocaine | 58 | |
| Au Pays de Cocaine | 63 | |
| Coke Bugs | 77 | |
| A Night With Captain Cocaine | 79 | |
| from Snowblind | 93 | |
| from Panama | 107 | |
| from After Hours | 122 | |
| from Miles: The Autobiography | 133 | |
| from You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again | 149 | |
| from Easy Riders, Raging Bulls | 158 | |
| from High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess | 169 | |
| from Less Than Zero | 184 | |
| from Bright Lights, Big City | 190 | |
| from Postcards from the Edge | 197 | |
| from On Writing | 208 | |
| from Rush | 211 | |
| from The Story of the Night | 216 | |
| from Clockers | 234 | |
| from Beam Me Up, Scotty | 255 | |
| New Crack City | 272 | |
| from Cocaine | 278 | |
| from Infinite Jest | 296 | |
| from Weird Like Us | 305 | |
| from Doghouse Roses | 312 | |
| from Cocaine Nights | 318 | |
| from Filth | 332 |
Anonymous
Posted February 20, 2003
Great book, but I bought it due to Thompson supposedly having a piece in the book, which I have not found after purchasing. Nor Leary. Odd, maybe I'm dense and not seeing it.
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Blow, candy, Charlie, coke, go, ice, rock, snow, crack. Whatever you call it, thrill seekers have surrendered to cocaine's siren call, paid their toll, and sold their souls. Its embrace can be deadly, a place of no return, the ultimate rush, public enemy number one. From the gutter to the penthouse, inner city to outer burb, from the Third World coca farmer to the executive addict, coke is the lifeblood of a global black economy and an outlaw underground. Coke has also been dark muse, torment, and theme to many ...