Word: opium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of Europe-was once a graduate student at Columbia University, once Charge d'Affaires at the Chinese Legation in London, later the most outspokenly anti-British of Chinese delegates to the League of Nations. In 1927 he horrified Geneva diplomats by declaring, during a debate on the opium question...
...that indeterminate East of which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands would be a melodrama. Eye-witness of the story is Dr. Saunders, an Englishman who for some English reason is a pariah to his kind and has become an opium-smoking, suspiciously bachelor dweller among Chinese. An able eye specialist, he has a large practice. On a lucrative visit to a far-away trader, he runs into two dubious Australians, gets a lift on their lugger to another island. Captain Nichols, skipper of the boat, is a shifty but unashamed...
Taking along a load of opium, a load of Japanese yen and a load of warm winter clothing, Captain Kawahito set off in command of a platoon, floundered through awful mud to the bandits' lair-all because His Britannic Majesty's Government refuses to be trifled with...
Squaring his jaw, Captain Kawahito first threatened, then conjured up the joys of smoking opium in warm winter clothes stuffed with Japanese yen. Probably it was the 250 Ib. of opium that turned the trick, though Captain Kawahito also paid over 130,000 yen ($30,000) and strewed winter clothing right & left. Finally the Captain received custody of the two sick, bedraggled, utterly filthy whites. "They thought I was going to die," gasped Mrs. Pawley. "That was one of the reasons why they...
Though he seems to have been "disintoxicated" several times, Cocteau, unlike famed Addict Thomas De Quincey, admits no desire to "reform." He writes: "Do not expect me to be a traitor. Naturally opium remains unique and its well-being superior to that of health. To it I owe my perfect hours." Saying that to lecture an opium addict is like telling Tristan to kill Isolde, he comes nearest to an apology when he writes: "Living is a horizontal fall. But for that fixative, a life completely and continually conscious of its speed would become intolerable. It allows the man condemned...