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5 Classics Written Under the Influence
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6-1-2008 8:26 AM
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Collected Poetry, Li Po (701 - 762)</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.neatorama.com/img/AF18C0FD-62E9-4ACB-9149-2838888DF0D2" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/">One of the best of the T'ang dynasty poets in seventh-century China, Li Po wrote many poems about drinking.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/">alcohol has two functions. First of all, it brings friends together to sing, to reminisce</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/">Second, it acts as a muse, a way to relax and release the poet into fantasies and meditations</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/"><H2>2. "Kubla Khan," Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.neatorama.com/img/9932404C-B0F6-435A-8EFB-D5D4161BA816" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/">After smoking opium, Coleridge fell asleep, and when he awoke he was on fire with images.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/">The result is one of the wildest, most puzzling poems of all time.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/"><H2>3. <EM>The Sun Also Rises</EM>, Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.neatorama.com/img/9B827F2F-4E11-4455-88D4-378B7E98E24C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/">Like many famous writers, Hemingway battled alcoholism all his life. In <EM>The Sun Also Rises</EM>, one of his best novels, almost every character drinks continually.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/"><H2>4. <EM>Being and Nothingness</EM>, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.neatorama.com/img/CE56A0B9-0CAA-4F0C-9C0A-30BA2071E606" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/">Sartre apparently was a big ingester of mescaline to get him, er, up to speed. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/"><H2>5. <EM>Naked Lunch</EM>, William S. 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