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A Memoir of Drink and Hunger in a Tortured Life
A narrator recalls a coerced descent into excess, describing a bargain with a tormentor who bought his appetite. He details relentless drinking, a hermitic cottage retreat, and the slow erasure of taste, joy, and humanity, ending with warnings about delirium tremens and moral reckoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Litcrate
Morning Post
Walter Scott
Boule-de-neige
Luke Lucraft
William Saunders
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Hans Hansen
Hansen
London Bridge
Thames
Crackett
Noveau
Bouie-de-neige
Tom Kirby
de Mortuis
Luke
London
Luke Taucraft
Strange
Islington
Islington High Street
Juliet