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Word: telepylusâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1923-1923
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...cocaine with heroin when the first begins to pall?and, after a lurid continental honeymoon, return to England and sink into the nethermost hell of the drug-user. From this they are rescued by an extraordinary swami-plus-demigod, yclept King Laions, who removes them to the island of Telepylus???a sort of Marie Correllian Abbey of Theleme?where they are finally made to cure themselves. A gaudy, wholly incredible penny-dreadful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: *North of 36 | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

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