* Fitz Hugh Ludlow and his autobiographical The Hasheesh Eater ( 1857 ).

* Fitz Hugh Ludlow, The Hasheesh Eater ( 1857 )

* Fitz Hugh Ludlow-The Hasheesh Eater

* The Hasheesh Eater by Fitz Hugh Ludlow

Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as “ Fitzhugh Ludlow ,” ( September 11, 1836 – September 12, 1870 ) was an American author, journalist, and explorer ; best known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater ( 1857 ).

The explorations of altered states of consciousness in The Hasheesh Eater are at the same time eloquent descriptions of elusive subjective phenomena and surreal, bizarre, and beautiful literature.

The pages of The Hasheesh Eater introduce a bookish and near-sighted young Fitz Hugh: “ into books, ill health, and musing I settled down when I should have been playing cricket, hunting, or riding.

In The Hasheesh Eater he says that “ e who should collect the college carols of our country ... would be adding no mean department to the national literature ... hey are frequently both excellent poetry and music ... hey are always inspiring, always heart-blending, and always, I may add, well sung .”

He says in The Hasheesh Eater that through the drug, “ I had caught a glimpse through the chinks of my earthly prison of the immeasurable sky which should one day overarch me with unconceived sublimity of view, and resound in my ear with unutterable music .” This glimpse would haunt him for the rest of his days.

The Hasheesh Eater was written on the advice of his physician during his withdrawal.

The Hasheesh Eater was published when Ludlow was twenty-one years old.

The Hasheesh Eater is an autobiographical book by Fitz Hugh Ludlow describing the author's altered states of consciousness and philosophical flights of fancy while he was using a cannabis extract.

First published in 1857, The Hasheesh Eater went through four editions in the late 1850s and early 1860s, each put out by Harper & Brothers.

The popularity of The Hasheesh Eater led to interest in the drug it described.

Within twenty-five years of the publication of The Hasheesh Eater, many cities in the United States had private hashish parlors.

The occultist Aleister Crowley found The Hasheesh Eater to be “ tainted by admiration of de Quincey and the sentimentalists ” but admired Ludlow ’ s “ wonderful introspection ” and printed significant excerpts from the book in his journal The Equinox.

The book included several pages of excerpts from The Hasheesh Eater and noted that

Morris Bishop ( who would later include his impressions in his book Eccentrics ), criticized Ludlow ’ s later attempts at fiction, writing that his short stories “ are today stale and meaningless … echoes of all the other magazine stories of his time, originating in literature, not in life, and conducted with no regard for truth and with little for verisimilitude .” In The Hasheesh Eater on the other hand:

Robert DeRopp, in the 1957 book Drugs and the Mind, was perhaps the first to express skepticism at Ludlow ’ s “ addiction ” story, noting that “ o one seriously interested in the effects of drugs on the mind should fail to read Ludlow ’ s book ,” but accusing Ludlow of a “ hypertrophy of the imagination and an excessive dependence on the works of De Quincey ” ( although he also found The Hasheesh Eater to be “ more lively and more colorful reading than … the grossly overrated confessions of that ‘ English opium-eater .’”).

In 1960, The Hasty Papers: A One-Shot Review, a beat literature journal, devoted most of its pages to reprinting the first edition of The Hasheesh Eater in its entirety, and David Ebin ’ s book The Drug Experience included three chapters from The Hasheesh Eater.

Oriana J. Kalant, in 1971 in The International Journal of the Addictions found The Hasheesh Eater to be a remarkable description of the effects of cannabis:

During these visits, Ludlow “ made upon myself the trial of the effects of every strange drug and chemical which the laboratory could produce .” A few months before, Bayard Taylor ’ s Putnam ’ s Magazine article The Vision of Hasheesh had been devoured by Ludlow, and so when the cannabis-based tetanus remedy called Tilden ’ s extract came out he had to try some.

The mid 1970s saw two new editions of The Hasheesh Eater in print, one by San Francisco ’ s City Lights Books, and a well-annotated and illustrated version edited by Michael Horowitz and released by Level Press.

In the 2000s, Ludlow has been introduced to a new generation of psychedelics users through Terence McKenna, who read chapters from The Hasheesh Eater for a set of tapes (“ Victorian Tales of Cannabis ”) put out by Sound Photosynthesis, and who regularly praised Ludlow in his books, saying Ludlow “ began a tradition of pharmo-picaresque literature that would find later practitioners in William Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson .… Part genius, part madman, Ludlow lies halfway between Captain Ahab and P. T.

It is named for Fitz Hugh Ludlow, author of the first full-length work of drug literature written by an American, The Hasheesh Eater, ( 1857 ).

The American author Fitz Hugh Ludlow used Tilden ’ s Extract recreationally, and wrote the book The Hasheesh Eater ( 1857 ) about his experiences.

The book was a success, going through a few printings in short order, and Ludlow, although he published both the book and his earlier article The Apocalypse of Hasheesh anonymously, was able to take advantage of the book ’ s notoriety.

John Hay, who would become a close confidant of President Lincoln and later U. S. Secretary of State, remembered Brown University as the place “ where I used to eat Hasheesh and dream dreams .” And a classmate recalls that after reading Ludlow ’ s book, Hay “ must needs experiment with hasheesh a little, and see if it was such a marvelous stimulant to the imagination as Fitzhugh Ludlow affirmed.

Hasheesh is indeed an accursed drug, and the soul at last pays a most bitter price for all its ecstasies ; moreover, the use of it is not the proper means of gaining any insight, yet who shall say that at that season of exaltation I did not know things as they are more truly than ever in the ordinary state ?....

The picture book " The Dream Eater " by Christian Garrison tells the story of a young boy, Yukio, who meets a baku and brings it to his village.

In the case of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the American versions were released first, followed by the Japanese versions and then the European versions, with each regional release offering new content not found in the previous one.

* In the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, The Boss is also known as Voyevoda by the Soviets, as referenced in the game by President Johnson.

Such people are often called " blood traitors " by those who subscribe to Death Eater ideologies.

Research by Burtt suggests that Sheb Wooley, best known for his novelty song " The Purple People Eater " in 1958 and as scout Pete Nolan on the television series Rawhide, is likely to have been the voice actor who originally performed the scream.

* Harry Watson: the Mile Eater ( New Zealand Cycling Legends 02 ) by Jonathan Kennett, Bronwen Wall & Ian Gray ( 2006 )-ISBN 0-9582673-1-6

Image: Little Bee Eater by Danelle Vivier. jpg | Little Bee Eater in the Caprivi strip, Namibia.

Capri is the setting for " The Lotus Eater " ( 1945 ), a short story by Somerset Maugham.

* The second song on the 2010 album AgriDustrial by punk blues band Legendary Shack Shakers is titled " Sin Eater.

* " The Last Sin Eater " is the title of a novel by Francine Rivers ( 1998 ) and a movie based on the novel that was released in 2007.

* A HALO jump is performed by Naked Snake in the opening scene of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater ( heralded as " the world's first HALO jump " in the story ).

The game was followed by Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, and by the prequel Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater for the PlayStation 2.

These games were followed by a sequel to Snake Eater titled Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, which was released for the PlayStation Portable in 2006.

The overarching theme of the Metal Gear Solid series is that of the " gene, meme, scene, sense and peace " and how people are affected by these factors according to the game's producer Kojima — Metal Gear Solid deals with genetics and the moral implications of genetic engineering, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty deals with how identity can be affected by the philosophies of one's society ( a ' meme ') and the effects of censorship on society, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater deals with how the time and place one lives in ( a ' scene ') affects their identity and how politics change along with the times, and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots deals with the ' sense ' that people die, things move on and times change, and that life should not be defined by fighting.

's activity ceased shortly after Michael Corner was tortured by Death Eater siblings Alecto and Amycus Carrow, for trying to rescue a first-year boy from imprisonment.

George's ear is permanently severed by a stray Sectumsempra curse from Snape, who was actually aiming at a Death Eater.

The twins return to participate in the Battle of Hogwarts, during which Fred and Percy Weasley defeat Pius Thicknesse and an unidentified Death Eater, but moments later, Fred is killed in an explosion caused by Augustus Rookwood.

Thunderbird leads the revived X-Men members into looking for a diary written by Destiny that might hold the key to defeating Amatsu-Mikaboshi while evading Carrion Crow, Eater of the Dead.

Episode writer Norman Spinrad based the script on a novelette " The Planet Eater " that had been rejected by a number of publishers.