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That when he was playing with La Monte Young, John Cale was given LSD, pot, and opium to help him "sustain a note on his viola for two hours at a stretch"?
"Spiritual opium," Beijing called it.
Its orchestrations, especially David Tom's guitar loops, are as near as anyone's ever come to the sensation of smoking, even if by the time she gets halfway through the Hollies' "The Air That I Breathe" (click to hear it)--"Peace came upon me/ And it lee-ee-ee-eaves me weak"--she seems to be unwinding from a heavy night at the opium den rather than down to her last Marlboro Light.
To Queen Victoria, Lin addressed a famous letter, pointing out the harm the “poisonous drug” did to China, and asking for an end to the opium trade; his arguments are unanswerable, but the lofty though heartfelt tone of the letter shows how unprepared the Chinese were to negotiate with the West in realistic terms.
Chanel, does not smell from cocoa; I haven't tried opium, but cannot imagine that Opium smells much like an opium den; and it is impossible to guess at what the millennium will smell like.