drug-born

Updated: May 13, 2025

Paling a little, his eyes staring, mouth agape, the engineer stayed there for a long minute unable to credit his own senses. For now he, he, the only white man living in the twenty-eighth century, was witnessing the strangest sight that ever a civilized being had looked upon in the whole history of the world. No vision of DeQuincey, no drug-born dream of Poe could equal it for grisly fascination.

George Allan England - Darkness and Dawn

Let a man so affected try to impart to another his fancies, and well, who has not been bored by a drunken man? Did De Quincey, with that superb mind, succeed in fancying anything that even he could tell? He speaks of glowing drug-born fancies, but he describes nothings.

Charles Romyn Dake - A Strange Discovery