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From the literary point of view, Walton delivers a
fascinating chapter discussing the hoary old argument
that drugs increase creativity, taking in Coleridge, De
Quincey, the Beats and an excellent analysis of Malcolm
Lowry’s Under The Volcano.
In short, Out Of It is something of a vital contribu-
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tion to the literature both of and about drugs – it makes
its points effectively without becoming polemical and
shows up many drug-related arguments, both for and
against, to be simply vacuous. Out Of It does a neat job
of clearing a path to let a real debate about intoxicants
and their place in society begin. �
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