The Peyote Dance
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Voyage to the Land of the Tarahumara is a book by Antonin Artaud. It is a study of the Tarahumaran Indians in Mexico and tells about experiments with the drug peyote. The content of this work closely resembles the poems of his later days, concerned primarily with the supernatural. Artaud also recorded his horrific withdrawal from heroin upon entering the land of the Tarahumaras; having deserted his last supply of the drug at a mountainside, he literally had to be hoisted onto his horse, and soon resembled, in his words, "a giant, inflamed gum".
Having beaten his addiction, however, Artaud would return to opiates later in life.
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