THE CHINA · MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, · · 1957.
A QUESTION FOR MR. GREENE¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶)||||||||||||
Why should these authors
take drugs?
HILE bullets whined across the paddy-fields, the tall English- man stepped out of the shadows of a town in Indo-China
VV and made a mysterious sign. Standing by a rickshaw, he put one finger in his mouth and gravely cocked a snook. Instantly the rickshaw man understood,
It was 1954. The Indo- Chinu war WNA at its helght. But the English-
to
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BOOKS by ROBERT PITMAN
opium house."
of
that bo
to
man was not a secret agent. He
Mr GRAHAM
ordinary WALB
And he was followed by a long
He concludert The tige of daring Frenchmen from mude
helped up my GREENE, the author.
to COCTEAU towards the saint class by an meaning of his sign: BAUDELAIRE
who like Mr Greene later necasional tot of Mescalin. He "Please take me
nullered <H3 naughty about even urged scientists to find a oplum with all the bravado of harmless form of Mescalin For Mr Greene WILH Just schoolboys telling the rest he marketed, in a suitable pack, one of several pleasant evenings the dorim about getting drunk as an alternative to tobacco and with the pl
Sometimes he in the hols.
Then suddenly, three high-class establish-
years went to
Sometimes he wens to a ugs, the oplumt hen were pushed
The where
pipe on one side by an entirely new were report et drug-takers who have trousers hunners 122 D held the floor ever since. These
new writers have no truck with its But whereVOT
They has paid Bohemianism,
very respectable indeed.
lusv
attle
amokres
hung up like
enthedral nave,"
he went, The cours
iT.
Opium fan
1
Experiments
And hot lender? Not M Gerene, it need hardly be said. Mr ALDOUS HUXLEY.
drink.
In highbrow circles Huxley's drug promptly came the rage. It seemed to have all the advan- It was somehow dering Lubes and chic. Yet it obviously put class apart devotees in
{“ the pathetic from vipers and the men with golden
teenage
The
church-towET
RECORDS
The Way To A £50,000
-Income
The rain did beat and bicker; separate from his body, how his
overhead,
"W swinging own voice sounded a 1141e dis-
You scarce could hear the
vicar.
Unique?
tan, how he made mistakes in almple arithmetic, how he felt blissfully content, how he lost
66 XX7 H A T," I asked Mantovani, "do you
think of rock 'n' roll?" Mantovani's eyes
all sense of time. But are these dark and sad. Ho sigh- pensations really so unusual? ed. And yet, it will be sald, what some pictures of Mr Mayhew Along with this article appeared of experimentera ilko Mayhew? afternoon
.with. Mercalln
Mr
"I suppose It's all right, You can dance to it. But you can't You need nerves of steel to stand the impact,"
Nobody could say that about the lifting, rippling strings of His music (sell- Mantovani Ing 0,000,000 records) scothing
taken during the experiment. Wasn't his sing His uppearance can be summed Usten to it.
up In one word. Squirty, unique experience? Well, nota what it amounted 10, Under
Normally, of course, Mr the
Kolemn headline
"An Mayhew is almost testoinler, Excursion out of Time Mayhew Perhaps he did not realise thai describes that afternoon. With something rather more common the air of a discoverer he tells than Mescalins can produce the how he began to feel somehow same effect,
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GRAHAM GREENE
1:
had
himself
Deceptive
and
the
up
an
provided religious heard the howls of a messenger aring, experience $11 bottle form of death. Finally, even worso, There was nothing sordid about the visioris took a flippant turn. 120
-Mr Huxiry
sold 1) When
became slcodily they
Word more trivial and stupid
dis- gave up the experiment In gust. Ha conclusion: that, even If the real mystics were put on their saintly path by the action of bodily chemicals, no artinell
could
the produce chemical In
same effect.
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Mr Greeng not only made the of his novel The Quiet heru
convincing American into [
ulsu In 1964, according to his book deperibert tus own experiences Doors of perception, novelist expri- Aldous joined in wome
CHRISTOPHER Even Mr In an intellectual magizOU,
He has decribed the girls in ments with the Mexican cactus- MAYHEW, the politician
(i ludity drug Mesenlin After knocking TV man, who would hardly be the opioin houses
slightly k
track stif half-tumbler of
fr cli fun He Kirl
found ordinary
wrote Has Mescalin-and-water, he
way, described the women in charge that th doors of his perception afternoon spent in the arms of (including one "very beautiful were wide open (1 was seeing Mescalin
Adam bud scen In ned what madame who had the unruffled
And he m: merit of his creation.") ealm of a quiet nun"),
to has explained how it feels smilt oplom for the first
une attractive, dirty, Squinting
time (like the first sight of a bemti-
ful realises possible").
Woman
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with
whom relationship
Why?
**
the
the
one
Mr
cult dead
char who tells you dreamed the night
ACROSS
1 Clutch (8).
Summary (0).
8 Inlaid work (6).
32
1 Droll (5).
DOWN
2 Fire-raising (5).
3 or highest quality (6).
Now, however, no author has
along
these Comme
who knocks
Ward has killed the 31 noticed He Buchtenly
I am not sorry. beliefs to the ground. He la Mr Merculin cult beauty of a bamboo chalr. ("'I
They were merely A Drag-taker's Notes (Gollancz, ing bores. apent several minutes or was 1.1. WARD. His new book The Mescalin men were becom- fashionable equivalent of renturies-not merely gazing at
10s.). His main argument the is those bamboo legs, but actually
that one afternoon's acquaint the office them.")
ance with drugs of the Mescalin what she engaged In And when not
10 Giver (5). before,
And, like all the other Literary 12 Up-to-date (6). being a chuaie leg, Aldous found type can be utterly deceptive.
Huxley wrote his book after a single dose, Drug-taker Ward drug-takers, I suspect that they 14 Call together (7). Special fascination in the sight Natiel trousers,
their shabby On six different took
pastime 7 Nozzle (4). of his gray
went further, like
19 Free from seemed
doctor's for the
that Mr 19 same reason draperies from a picture by El evenings he sat in a
room at n hospital and made Colin Wilson wears his shabby 20 Afternoon performance (7). 13 Expunges (7). notes
(not sweater. drug while the Greco,
Mescalin, but something very like It took effect.
But there is one thing which Mr Greene has never explained: Why should authors go in for drug-taking, anyway?
which
NOW
Not content
Symphony
A
It all began with COLERIDGE (Who wrote penis in his sleep) and DE QUINCEY (who wrote The Conferstons of an Oplum Anyone else might have been
woke up), Eater when he
But content to leave matters there. for But not Aldous. He knew that they both had gund reason for
Aspirin had Mescalin taking the plunge.
ukin to a vision- Coleridge stirr
forin stirring chemical, not been invented. had toothach and De Quinces adrenalin, which occurs in
They found that human body. He had neuralgia. only opium could kill the pain, according to the scientists,
religious mystica may There was no such excuse for great EDGAR ALLAN POE, He took have been super-endowed with the familiar oplum terrors sel up oplum just for the stu of . this chemical.
knew
At first things went well.
whistled of drought
down the the corridor. in Ward's cars, the that, noise became a grond barbaric
the symphony.
But on the third evening all
in. A dachshund yapped. Ward
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"DEAR, I'VE JUST DISCOVERED
A WAY TO FIX OVER SEVERAL
PRESSES TO LOOK LIKE
NEW --SO 1
WON'T NEED A STITCH
THIS SPRING!“
Up
To
20 A from dirt (7). themselves 22 Dash (4).
off from ordinary mortels,
23 Bears witness (7).
Of course, they have always 27 Old strip-tense cop? (6). offered the excuse of inspira-20 Deted kernels cocoanut (5). don. But, even after Mescalin 30 Rigorous (6).
and oplunt. Messrs. Huxley and 31 Conundrum (8). Greene have written nothing to 32 Lukewarm (8). touch their earlier novels.
Look at Coleridge. His genlus soon fizzled out in a sea of dope. A serious example of his verse" after years of opium:-
The wind was wild: against the
glass
5 Discourteous (4),
Gun (8).
7 Sifted (0).
- Hide (7).
11 Elaborately decorated (0).
15 Just
the
stone for chum (4). 16 More conceited (3). 18 Despatched (4),
20 Textile dealer (6).
21 Knocked lightly (0).
24 Negotiate (5).
25 Precipitous (5).
26 Mount (5).
28 Nobleman (4).
ring.
FRIDAYS CROSSWORD-Across: 3 Dislodge, & Omit, 9 Demented, it Despleed, 13 Tear. 15 Competes. 14 Director. 19 Reef. 21 Relented, Toreador 20 Omen. 27 Surveyed. Down; 1 Fer-d. 2 Dies, 4 lees, & Lied, o Daten. Eller, Dived. 10 Meter. 12 Elope, 14 Atone, 18 Tired, Sewer, 18 Rates, 20 Error, 21 Rage. 22 Lore, 23 Tomo, 24 Done.
That'll Be The Day
'I WOULDN'T THINK OF ADVISING YOU ABOUT HIM I SOMETIMES I WONDER HOW I EVER RAISED HIS FATHER WITH ALL THOSE OLD-FASHIONED METHODS. I THINK THE MODERN WAY IS MUCH THE BEST !
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A TIGER'S DIAMONDS He first started making re-
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Now, with concert tours and TV appearances, he is grossing a comfortable £50,000 a year. "OL course, the buik of my soles arc in America. Over there I'm so populur that they seen to think I'm made of
Why. money.
lost
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Mantovani Arst CLIC to England at the age of four- Lon of an Italian violinist who settled here as conductor of a Landon hotel orchestra,
Now, at 51, he lives in a jargo and splendid stat overlooking Regent's Park, paying a four- figure rent, placidly working in a palatally panelled musi
room
on the score of his next long- Dell you player. (" mustn't anything about it. Somebody might steall my ideas and get out a rival record first. This is
a cut-throat business.”)
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