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I read it at Uni too - I was at Royal Holloway college back in the 80's pissed or hung over for three years. I passed though...that's what made me laugh about De Quincey -he was at Oxford for 7 years then dropped out. He was taking enough opium daily to kill two or three normal people and he lived to be quite old so there's hope for us all! He's a brilliant writer of really long convoluted sentences and he was a bit of a scoundrel. He always makes excuses for his behaviour and tries to be really respectable. That's what makes me laugh.