Diary of a Drug Fiend

The Grinding of the Brakes 177 —that it is in fact impossible to do so? Of course, I don’ t doubt that you immediately killed any such ‘pernicious suggestion’ by a counter-suggestion based on my positive statement, from experience, that people of strong character and high intelligence like yourself and Sir Peter—to whom please give my most cordial greetings |—were perfectly well able to use these things in moderation as one does soap. “ But, apart from this, do you find that the life of a ‘Heroine’ makes you abnormally ‘suggestible ?’ “ As you know, I object to the methods of Coué and Baudouin. They ask us deliberately to abandon free will and clear mentality for the semi-hypnotic state of the medieval peasant; to return like ‘the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire’ from which we have been extricated by evolution. “Now, doesn’t waltzing with the Hero’s Bride or making Snow Men tend to put you into a state of mind which is too dreamy to resist the action of any strenuous idea which is presented to it strongly enough, is too dead to feeling to wish to resist, or so excitable that it is liable to be carried away by its admiration for any fascinatingly forceful personality? “IT should be so: glad to have your views on these points; and, of course, your personal confirmation of my theory that people like you and Sir Peter can use these substances with benefit to yourselves and others, without danger of becoming slaves. I have trained myself and many others to stop at Will; but every additional affidavit to this effect is of great value to me in my present campaign to destroy the cowardly superstition that manhood and womanhood are in- capable of the right and proper use of anything what- ever in nature. We have tamed the wild lightning, after all; shall we run away from a packet of powder ? “Love is the ‘law, love under will. “With my kind regards to Sir Peter, “Yours ever, “ Basi, Kinc Lamus.”