His all-time record, he says, was a nine-day coke-assisted session of wakefulness, at the end of which he merely tipped over, slamming his head against a stereo speaker: It was just a curtain of blood. This aspect of the book, the addicts narrative, is the latest installment in a tradition that dates back to Romanticism and Thomas de Quinceys opium visions of crocodiles and other unutterable monsters, to Crabbe, Coleridge, Byron, Baudelairewhere to stop
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Together, the bridges, city, and flood express one central idea: a life can feel as though it is ending even when nothing visibly dramatic has happened