De Quincey

In the 19th century, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas De Quincey wrote freely about their use of opium, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning referred to a mixture of morphine and ether as “my elixir.”

He might have crossed paths with Thomas De Quincey, who floated over the city on opium fumes.

Best of all, he loves writers who craft sentences crooked with clauses, like Thomas Browne and Thomas De Quincey.

His friend Charles Lamb called him “a cracked archangel”, while his fellow drug addict Thomas De Quincey would defend his poetic experimentalism.

Karl Marx lived in Soho, as did Thomas De Quincey, author of “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”.