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Before entering on the record of this new vision I will make a digression, for the purpose of introducing two
laws of
the hasheesh operation, which, as explicatory, deserve a place here. First, after the completion of any one
fantasia has
arrived, there almost invariably succeeds a
shifting of the action to
some other stage entirely different in its
surroundings…..
Second, after the full storm of a vision of intense sublimity has blown past the hasheesh-eater, his next vision is generally of a quiet, relaxing, and recreating nature. He comes down from his clouds or up from his abyss into a middle ground of gentle shadows, where he may rest his eyes from the splendor of the seraphim or the flames of fiends.
— Fitzhugh Ludlow, The Hasheesh Eater (Harper & Brothers, 1857)
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