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1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed he was inspired to write "Kubla Khan" after reading about Xanadu and partaking of which substance?
2. There is no evidence to suggest Walt Whitman took drugs. However, this man who cited Whitman as a major influence did. He is famous for seeing "the best minds of [his] generation destroyed by madness ..." Who is he?
3. Do androids dream of electric sheep? Only if they are taking Semoxydrine. Name this sci-fi author who often had drug fueled hallucinogenic episodes between 1963-64.
4. Some people take the train, others take mescalin. Aldous Huxley preferred the latter. In what book did Huxley champion a better world through drugs?
5. Prose and cocaine - Robert Louis Stevenson did both well. What Stevenson novel involved drugs and a bad case of multiple personality disorder?
6. This gonzo journalist and "drug researcher" knew how to live. In "Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80's" he wrote, "sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested." Who is he?
7. This Alqonquin Round Table alcoholic was well known for her dry wit and morbid humor. After several failed suicide attempts she developed a unique perspective on life and self termination which is immortalized by her famous quote, "Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live." Who is she ?
8. Charles Bukowski was fond of women and drink though they seemed not to agree with him. However, it was those failures that made him a masterful student of the human condition. This is evidenced by his 1977 collection of poetry in which he writes, "our educational system tells us that we can all be ... winners. It hasn't told us about the gutters or the suicides or the terror of one person aching in one place alone, untouched, unspoken to watering a plant." What is the name of this collection ?
9. This hard imbibing Welsh author died at 39 due to pneumonia and fatty liver disease. His most famous work urged the dying to not "go gentle into that goodnight" and yet he passed away quietly after lingering in a short coma. Who is he?
10. New York poet Jim Carroll excelled at hoops, heroin and poetry. At the tender age of 16 he published his first collection of poems and within penned memorable lines such as, "like an army of mothers mobilizing in their pregnant selves, we are nearer to death than love." What is the title of Caroll's freshman work?
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