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shoots the "sex fantasy" idea squarely in the ass.
The fact that he borrowed the first couple lines of his poem from a former work doesn't really contradict any theories of symbolic meaning. I could borrow the first few lines of the Star Spangled Banner and create a poem about elephants if I wanted to. I don't, but I could.
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Sherlock Holmes "took" opium - do you suppose Arthur Conan Doyle did?)
didn't Holmes take cocaine? not opium?
crossing threads, to lyrics, any one know the artist or more words to:
Coke's for horses,
not for men,
they tell me it will kill,
they don't say when
cocaine, runnin' alround my brain?
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Helen, the version I know is Dave van Ronk [Ronke?], from the late 1960's. I'll check later tonight if I still have the album, and will PM you the lyrics I hear or recall. Edit: Helen, the song is Cocaine Blues. Bob Dylan recorded it a few years ago. His lyrics are at: http://www.bobdylanroots.com/cocaine.html, but the song is an old one, with lots of other verses. I went to bed last night, singin' a song,
Woke up to find my nose was gone.
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didn't Holmes take cocaine? not opium?
Oops! You're quite right. I stand corrected.
Fortunately, Doyle's stories are sufficiently voluminous as to permit me a feeble face-saving comeback: Holmes _did_ flirt with opium too, in The Man with the Twisted Lip.
(But it was definitely cocaine that I _should_ have been thinking of.)
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I found a site that said Conan Doyle was a cocaine addict. It also said "Quick Watson, the needle" did not occur in any of the stories.
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In reply to:
I don't recall having read that Wordsworth had a problem with opium.
I thought in his day pretty much everyone who could afford to took it for medicinal purposes, and most did not become addicted or have other problems with it.
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If memory serves me correctly, I believe Lawrence Durrell had a character named Porlock in one or two of the books of the Alexandria Quartette. He had plenty of literary allusions, most famously his narrator, named Darley, also known as Lineaments of Gratified Desire (another literary reference), whose initials LGD are the same as Durrell's.
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