Diary of a Drug Fiend

Phaeton 45 it was impossible to fail, and to not knowing enough to know when one was beaten, nothing could ever go wrong. We are losing the Empire because we have become “sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.” The intellectuals have made us like “the poor cat i’ the adage.” The spirit of Hamlet has replaced that of Macbeth. Macbeth only went wrong because the heart was taken out of him by Macduff’s interpretation of what the witches had said. Coriolanus only failed when he stopped tothink. As the poet says, ‘‘ The love of knowledge is the hate of life.”’ Cocaine removes all hesitation. But our forefathers owed their freedom of spirit to the real liberty which they had won; and cocaine is merely Dutch courage. However, while it lasts, it’s all right.