Artigo Revisado por pares

Philosophy: Entertaining the E Word: Barrie Kosky's On Ecstasy

2009; Queensland University of Technology; Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

1441-2616

Autores

Kate Cantrell,

Tópico(s)

Psychedelics and Drug Studies

Resumo

A review of Barrie Kosky's essay, On Ecstasy : Most of us describe the E word as a pleasant, out of this world experience—a type of boundless, artificial joy, deliberately induced by some kind of technicoloured drug. For others, it is that “lovey dovey” feeling. A spinning ceiling. Anything Lindt. For sensualist and soup connoisseur Barrie Kosky, it is easier than this. Being On Ecstasy involves, quite simply, his grandmother's chicken specialty—something warm and golden, surrendered with vegetables and a side of transcendental bliss. “A soup that took you to the beginning and end of time itself. A dazzling, pure, clear rhapsody” (7).

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