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 ".
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In " The Hasheesh Eater " he says that [ h ] e who should collect the college carols of our country . . . would be adding no mean department to the national literature . . . [ T ] hey are frequently both excellent poetry and music . . . [ T ] hey are always inspiring, always heart-blending, and always, I may add, well sung .
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He is a school by himself . Twain reciprocated by asking Ludlow to preview some of his work, and wrote to his mother, if Fitz Hugh Ludlow, ( author of The Hasheesh Eater ) comes your way, treat him well . . . . He published a high encomium upon Mark Twain, ( the same being eminently just & truthful, I beseech you to believe ) in a San Francisco paper.
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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:
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Although he later grew to think of cannabis as the very witch-plant of hell, the weed of madness and his involvement with it as unwise, [ w ] herein I was wrong I was invited by a mother s voice . . . . The motives for the hasheesh-indulgence were of the most exalted ideal nature, for of this nature are all its ecstasies and its revelations yes, and a thousand-fold more terrible, for this very reason, its unutterable pangs .
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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 . The night when Johnny Hay took hasheesh marked an epoch for the dwellers in Hope College .
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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 . The night when Johnny Hay took hasheesh marked an epoch for the dwellers in Hope College .
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For a time he seemed never to be out from under the influence of hashish . [ L ] ife became with me one prolonged state of hasheesh exaltation . . . he wrote, and noted that the effect of every successive indulgence grows more perduring until the hitherto isolated experiences become tangent to each other; then the links of the delirium intersect, and at last so blend that the chain has become a continuous band . . . . The final months . . . are passed in one unbroken yet checkered dream . He concluded:
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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 . Barnum, a kind of Mark Twain on hashish.
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A number of alumni have made meaningful contributions to arts and letters : Joel T . Headley ( 1839 ), author of numerous books about the Adirondack Mountains and early American history; William James Stillman ( 1848 ), photographer and author; Fitz Hugh Ludlow ( 1856 ), author of " The Hasheesh Eater "; Andrea Barrett ( 1974 ), winner of the National Book Award ( for " Ship Fever " ) and the Pulitzer Prize for works of fiction; and David Markson ( 1950 ), author of titles such as " The Ballad of Dingus Magee ".
