Blest leaf! Whose
aromatic gales dispense
To templars modesty,
to parsons sense :
So raptured
priests, at famed Dodona’s shrine
Drank inspiration
from the steam divine.
-- Isaac Browne, “A
Pipe of Tobacco”
Evidence that tobacco now exists in a Fallen condition, from
a state of prelapsarian purity:
I’d Walk a Mile for a Camel.
Bonus mini-thingie:
Dead Men Don't Smoke Camels.
Bonus mini-thingie:
Dead Men Don't Smoke Camels.
Not just (original, unfiltered) Camels, though; take it from
Sherlock Holmes:
“Watson, when you pass Bradley’s,
would you ask him to send up a pound of the strongest shag tobacco?”
-- The Hound of the Baskervilles
(1902)
~
A testimonial from Dr. Sigmund Freud, 1926:
Renouncing the sweet habit [Süsse Gewohnheit -- Goethe, Egmont]
of smoking has resulted in a great
diminution of my intellectual interests.
-- Ernest Jones, Freud: The Last
Phase (1957), p. 121
(Compare the tale of Paul Erdös and his very temporary forced
abstention from amphetamines:
"You have set mathematics back by two weeks!")
Freud suffered an excruciating jaw
surgery for cancer, with many unpleasant after-effects. Yet he resumed smoking, with the
consent of his physician.
Freud, post-surgery, 1929 |
~
~ Posthumous Endorsement ~
"If I were alive today, and in the mood
for a mystery,
this is what I'd be reading: "
(Ich bin Sigmund Freud, and I approved this
message.)
~
~
~
It was the opinion of the poet
Calverley, expressed in his immortal ‘Ode to Tobacco’, that there is no
heaviness of the soul which will
not vanish beneath the influence of a quiet smoke.
-- P.G. Wodehouse, Summer
Lightning (1929), ch. 3
[Update 21 July 2013] The latest in the chasse aux fumeurs, from the land of the politiquement correct:
Marisol Touraine évoque
l'interdiction de fumer dans les parcs et à la plage
La ministre de la Santé aimerait
que les villes songent à étendre les zones non-tabac en interdisant la
cigarette dans les lieux publics en plein air, comme les parcs, les plages, ou
devant les écoles.
To this, a learnèd reader makes reply, dans la langue de
Molière:
Vous n'avez vraiment rien d'autre à
foutre Mme Touraine?
For an even more in-your-face defense of a good smoke, check this out:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2013/10/natures-thurible.html
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