The main point of this article is to show the audience what the author had been experiencing first hand during his first try consuming Hashish; the feeling and experience with a hallucinogenic drug. Hashish had been causing the narrator to feel things extensively- feel things are moving extremely slow, or over a long period of time knowing that real time would be passing as just a few minutes. Patience had been slowly lost. He began to find interest in the smallest of many things; unrolling a ball of thread, watching an ice cube float over wine, filling a glass with water, etc. This drug had many effects on the narrator, but the narrator was able to explain the differences in reactions and effects of hashish in comparison to other drugs. Any reader would be able to agree that Walter Benjamin had spent much time experimenting with multiple drugs. …show more content…
They had seemed to give him eccentric excursions, leaving us with experiential protocols of largely unaltered thoughts. After looking at the printed article, I looked into the book itself a bit more in depth; Benjamin was working on a book on hashish for years – only to tell us about a slightly euphoric effect? What Benjamin called “the great hope, desire, yearning to reach—in a state of intoxication—the new, the untouched” remained elusive. When the effects of the drugs wore off, so did the feeling of “having suddenly penetrated, with their help, that most hidden, generally most inaccessible world of surfaces.” All that remained was the comments and gestures that were recorded; the ludicrous corpses of what had seemed vital