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   From: niunian@ymail.com   
      
   ÓÚ 2012Äê09ÔÂ18ÈÕ 02:59, Lee Rudolph дµÀ:   
      
   > I am thinking of the following passage from Philip K.   
   > Dick's note at the end of _A Scanner Darkly_.   
   >   
   >     Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision,   
   >     like the decision to step out in front of a moving   
   >     car. You would call that not a disease but an error   
   >     in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it,   
   >     it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular   
   >     life-style the motto is ``Be happy now because tomorrow   
   >     you are dying,'' but the dying begins almost at once,   
   >     and the happiness is a memory. It is, then, only a   
   >     speeding up, an intensifying, of the ordinary human   
   >     existence. It is not different from your life-style,   
   >     it is only faster. It all takes place in days or weeks   
   >     or months instead of years. ``Take the cash and let the   
   >     credit go,'' as Villon said in 1460. But that is a mistake   
   >     if the cash is a penny and the credit a whole lifetime.   
   >   
   > _Mutatis mutandis_...   
   >   
   > Lee Rudolph   
   >   
      
   People on drugs don't have memory, let alone happiness to begin with in   
   the first place. All they experience is nothing but a delusion.   
   Therefore, no matter how you evaluate it, it's never worth a penny.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)