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Thomas de Quincey No, it must be divided by a thick wall of dark nights from all return of light and sunshine. From the latter weeks of October to Christmas Eve, therefore, is the period during which happiness is in season, which, in my judgment, enters the room with the tea-tray; for tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally of coarse buy christian louboutin nerves, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual; christian louboutin shoes and, for my part, I would have joined Dr. Johnson in a bellum internecinum against Jonas Hanway, or any other impious person, who should presume to disparage it. But here, to save myself the trouble of too much verbal description, I will introduce a painter, and give him directions for the rest of the picture. Painters do not like white cottages,discounted christian louboutin, unless a good deal weather-stained; but as the reader now understands that it is a winter night, his services will not be required except for the inside of the house. Paint christian louboutin discount me, then, a room seventeen feet by twelve, and not more than seven and a half feet high. This, reader, is somewhat ambitiously styled in my family the drawing-room; but being contrived ��a double debt to pay,�� it is also, and more justly, termed the library, for it happens that books are the only article of property in which I am richer than my neighbours. Of these I have about five thousand, collected gradually since my eighteenth year. Therefore, painter, put as many as you can into this room. Make it populous with books, and, furthermore, paint me a good fire, and furniture plain and modest, befitting the unpretending cottage of a scholar. And near the fire paint me a tea-table, and (as it is clear that no creature can come to see on Louboutin UK e such a stormy night) place only two cups and saucers on the tea-tray; and, if you know how to paint such a thing symbolically or otherwise, pa christian louboutin shoes int me an eternal tea-pot��eternal a parte ante and a parte post��for I usually drink tea from eight o��clock at night to four o��clock in the morning. And as it is very unpleasant to make tea or to pour it out for oneself, paint me a lovely young woman sitting at the table. Paint her arms like Aurora��s and her smiles like Hebe��s. But no, dear M., not even in jest let me insinuate that thy power to illuminate my cottage rests upon a tenure so perishable as mere personal beauty, or that the witchcraft of angelic smiles lies within the empire of any earthly pencil. Pass then, my good painter, to something 62 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater more within its power; and the nex UK christian louboutin t article brought forward should naturally be myself��a picture of the Opium-eater, with his ��little golden receptacle of the pernicious drug�� lying beside him on the table. As to the opium, I have no objection to see a picture of that,Christian Louboutin Sneakers for Men, though I would rather see the original. You may paint it if you choose, but I apprise you that no ��little�� receptacle would, even i buy christian louboutin shoes n 1816, answer my purpose, who was at a distance from the ��stately Pantheon,�� and all druggists (mortal or otherwise). No, you may as well paint the real receptacle, which was not of gold, but of glass, and as much like a wine-decanter as possible. Into this you may put a quart of christian louboutin discount ruby-coloured lauda christian louboutin shoes sale num; that, and a book of German Metaphysics placed by its side, will sufficiently attest my being in the neighbourhood. But as to myself��there I demur. I admit that,christian louboutin spiked heels, naturally, I ought to occupy the foreground of the picture; that being the hero of the piece, or (if you choose) the criminal at the bar, my body should be had into court. This seems reasonable; but why should I confess on this point to a painter? or why confess at all? If the public (into whose private ear I am confidentially whispering my confessions, and not into any painter��s) should chance to have framed some agreeable picture for itself of the Opium-eater��s exterior, should have ascribed to him, romantically an elegant person or a handsome face, why should I barbarously tear from it so pleasing a delusion��pleasing both to the public and to me? No; paint me, if at all, according to your own fancy, and as a painter��s fancy should teem with beautiful creations, I cannot fail in that way to be a gainer. And now, reader, we have run through all the ten categories of my condition as it stood about 18 christian louboutin wedges 16-17, up to the middle of which latter year I judge myself to have been a happy man, and the elements of that happiness I have endeavoured to place before you in the above sketch of the interior of a scholar��s library, in a cottage among the mountains, on a stormy winter evening. But christian louboutin bridal shoes now, farewell��a long far christian louboutin shoes sale ewell��to happiness, winter or summer! Farewell to smiles and laughter! Farewell to peace of mind! Farewell to hope and to tranquil dreams, and to the blessed consolations of sleep. For more than three years and a half I am summoned away from these. I am now arrived at an Iliad of woes, for I have now to record 63 Thomas de Quincey THE PAINS OF OPIUM As when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. ��Shelley��s Revolt of Islam. READER, who have thus far accompanied me, I must request your attention to a brief explanatory note on three points: 1. For several reasons I have not been able to compose the notes for this part of my narrative into any regular and connected shape. I give the notes disjointed as I find them, or have now drawn them up from memory. Some of them point to their own date, some I have dated, and some are undated.
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