I think it's non-controversial that Ayn Rand and Sartre both took amphetamines in the same way Auden did, over many years
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Some of the finest minds in Wisconsin have hit on the perfect means of artificially enhancing one's mental clarity.
@JWigderson@VickiMcKenna. Auden's got nothing on us!https://twitter.com/BadgerPundit/status/897215235471417344 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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How would Hunter S. Thompson fit in here?
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I read somewhere that Jean-Paul Sartre used amphetamines when composing Critique of Dialectical Reason.
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Faulkner is reputed to have gulped down the whisky when he wrote. Also - parenthetically as it were - EMJones has written some interesting work on the amphetiminesque impact of syphilis, particularly in Nietzsche's work.
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Hunter S. Thompson talks explicitly about the changing taste for drugs in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. "We're all wired into a survival trip..." is the search. But I wonder about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He makes no secret of Holmes' taste for stimulants.
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