Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 5 – Quincey · Verses Across
Literature · Gothic Fiction
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 5You will think perhaps that I am too confidential and communicative
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Literature · Gothic Fiction
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 5
You will think perhaps that I am too confidential and communicative
QuinceyEnglish
of my own private history. It may be so. But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper. The fact is, I place myself at a distance of fifteen or twenty years ahead of this time, and suppose myself writing to those who will be interested about me hereafter; and wishing to have some record of time, the entire history of which no one can know but myself, I do it as fully as I am able with the efforts I am now capable of making, because I know not whether I can ever find time to do it again.
