Fitz Hugh Ludlow

Fitz Hugh Ludlow ( born September 11, 1836 in New York City; † September 12, 1870 ) was an American writer.

Life

He was born the son of a preacher and was hostile to slavery as a boy a thorough humanistic education.

Maybe it offset this knowledge in a position to describe his state of intoxication so eloquent, but even so distant. Among the reasons which led the young writer ( and friend of Mark Twain ) to undertake experiments with hashish, was a presumption that the fact a sesame full frame work and inventiveness inside him as he reflected in 1001. In these stories hashish was mentioned, and therefore he believed that their invention was perhaps due to the use of the drug.

In the Apocalypse of hashish Ludlow revealed as a herald of Pythagorean philosophy, which was to him rarely as clear as under the influence of the drug. Pythagoras is said to have traveled to Egypt and India, and Ludlow assumed that his mentor himself also belonged to the hashish eaters: Do not tell me that he brought with him his secret from Phoenicia ... No! The two mother countries of Nepenthe ( described by Homer intoxicants antiquity ), there is no doubt that he drank his apocalyptic Quantum and by the terrible invigorating effect reached the consciousness of this ubiquitous and flowing harmony.

Works

His work The hashish eater or excerpts from the life of a Pythagoräers 1857 First published anonymously. He thus wrote the thick book that was necessary, according to Theophile Gautier to represent a hashish hallucination.

• Fitz Hugh Ludlow: The Hashish - Eater - classics of world literature intoxicated. Foreword by Mathias Bröckers, Nachtschattenverlag, Solothurn 2001, 260 pp., ISBN 3-907080-72-6.