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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. 1974 first edition. Hardcover. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In this absorbing book Henri Michaux investigates the operation of the human mind under drugs. The analysis of the author’s own experiences links the disturbance induced by drugs with parallel states of mind afflicting the mentally alienated. His observations illuminate and dissect the mechanics of human thought and feeling in the normal and abnormal states. Michaux has an extraordinary capacity to remain outside himself to record to annotate to recall and to analyse and his sustained awareness brings control and discipline to the experience of chaos. Reports from this territory of the mind have tended to be couched in ecstatic meanderings verging on the inarticulate. Monsieur Michaux brings to bear in this meticulous survey the subtlety the power and the vision of a poet.