I Don't Think the Drug Experience Affected Me

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When he died, on his death bed, his wife is said to have injected him with lsd. Did the e experiment seem to returking the experiment with mascalin? Did that seem to shift him in his perspective at all? I mean, he went in with this very scientific mind and wrote about it from a very scientific place, indoors of perception.

Nicholas Murray is a freelance author and journalist based in Wales and London. Born in Liverpool, he is the author of several literary biographies including lives of Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Bruce Chatwin, Andrew Marvell and Matthew Arnold, five collections of poems, and two novels. His biography of Matthew Arnold was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997, and his biography of Aldous Huxley was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Prize in 2003. His biography of Franz Kafka has been translated into nine languages.

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