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"This book is an exploration. By means of words, signs, drawings. Mescaline, the subject explored." In Miserable Miracle, the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux, a confirmed teetotaler, tells of his life-transforming first encounters with a powerful hallucinogenic drug. At once lacerating and weirdly funny, challenging and Chaplinesque, his book is a breathtaking vision of interior space and a piece of stunning writing wrested from the grip of the unspeakable. Includes forty pages of black-and-white drawings.… (plus d'informations)
chmod007: While Huxley’s experiences with mescaline were mostly blissful, the substance revealed in his French contemporary Michaux a much darker mindscape. Read together, The Doors of Perception and Miserable miracle give the reader perspective on the tremendous transformative power of mescaline.… (plus d'informations)
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…and then, in short, you find yourself in a situation that nothing less than fifty different, simultaneous, contradictory, onomatopoeias, changing every half-second, could adequately convey.
[structural representation of the mescaline molecule]
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This book is an exploration. By means of words, signs, drawings. Mescaline, the subject explored.
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Finally I opened the bathroom door and turned on the switch. I stood aghast at what I saw in the washbasin: A fetus! I was utterly flabbergasted. It is true that a woman had been there a short time before, a woman I hardly knew, but who seemed so correct. It was unbelievable!
And ‘White’ appears. Absolute White. White beyond all whiteness. White of the coming of White. White without compromise, through exclusion, through total eradication of nonwhite. Insane, enraged white, screaming with whiteness. Fanatical, furious, riddling the retina. Horrible electric white, implacable, murderous. White in bursts of white. God of ‘white.’ No, not a god, a howler monkey. (Let’s hope my cells don’t blow apart.) End of white. I have a feeling that for a long time to come white is going to have something excessive for me.
I used to have a kind of respect for people who saw apparitions. No longer! I have no doubt they really see them, but in what a state! (Certainly not a normal one, for then they would really be extraordinary.)
Mescaline is a disorder of composition. It elaborates stupidly. Elementary, mentally deficient, senile.
… I almost forgot to say that Mescaline is an experiment in madness. Its use—as an “experimental psychosis”—in the study of madness is still uncommon, but will not remain so for much longer.
Taking Mescaline or some other well-chosen drug will one day perhaps be required in university stadiums and by the future “manipulators” of men.
Though not yet fully recuperated, I am getting farther from this drug which is not the drug for me. My drug is myself, which Mescaline banishes.
Anyone who takes Hashish as an experiment-witness after taking Mescaline leaves a racing automobile or a long-distance electric locomotive for a pony. * * A pony, however, is capable of surprises not to be looked for from a locomotive.
To make women-crocodiles is a simple matter for Hashish because, contrary to frigid Mescaline, it takes an interest in women and it is also interested in skins that are rough, wrinkled and tough.
The devil. (Why never an angel?)
Similary incomplete, as could be expected, are the webs of spiders that have been induced to take the urine of schizophrenics.
Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to try the experiment on the psychiatrists, rather than on the spiders?
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[from Addendum] Let's just say that I don't have much of a talent for addiction.
[from Some Remarks (last chapter)] The affective neutrality, almost indifference, with which I followed the unfolding of the phenomenon was like a sort of pre-personal state, a “before existence” state, infinitely archaic.
"This book is an exploration. By means of words, signs, drawings. Mescaline, the subject explored." In Miserable Miracle, the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux, a confirmed teetotaler, tells of his life-transforming first encounters with a powerful hallucinogenic drug. At once lacerating and weirdly funny, challenging and Chaplinesque, his book is a breathtaking vision of interior space and a piece of stunning writing wrested from the grip of the unspeakable. Includes forty pages of black-and-white drawings.
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