5 Classics Written Under the Influence


	5 Classics Written Under the Influence
hitchhiker08
6-1-2008 8:26 AM
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writers, poets, playwrights, creativity, storytellers, alcoholism, drugs
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2592f9e2-a591-418f-9e76-e960f3e0728d/ECC860B0-567E-416E-AFE5-709A7511BDE2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/" href="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.neatorama.com</a></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 id="post-16299"><A title="Permanent Link: 5 Classics Written Under the Influence" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/16/5-classics-written-under-the-influence/" class="noline"> 
              5 Classics Written Under the Influence</A></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/"><H2>1. 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. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)</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/2B4C384C-2632-4CD3-9E1D-57F8751160C4" 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/">Burroughs 
        was</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/">heroin addict</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/ECC860B0-567E-416E-AFE5-709A7511BDE2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>