Word: cigarettee
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“We would like students to consider Tommy’s as their Harvard canteen shop,” he says between puffs of a cigarette in his makeshift office in the basement of the store.
Smoking, Klein argues, nudges the user into a state that is not so much narcotic as contemplative. "The moment of taking a cigarette allows one to open a parenthesis in the time of ordinary experience, a space and time of heightened attention that give rise to a feeling of transcendence...
As Klein suggests, the pleasure of smoking is both aesthetic and metaphorical. Aesthetic: the votary aspect of lighting a cigarette. The very phrase "cigarette lighter" can refer both to the machine that provides the flame and to the person who clicks his Bic - or, if he's using matches, snicking...
I could say I smoke for the same reason I do many things I write about in this column: out of nostalgia for times, and cultures, and pleasures, and bad habits of a more glamorous day. I could say I smoke because my father did, and his mother, though both...
I say contact high because I never did inhale - never have, since trying it once as a kid and thinking, "People take this stuff into their lungs?" But I must have become habituated to the act of smoking. I took a year off in the 70s, then tried a pipe...