Adapted from Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, published in De l'Idéal artificiel, le Haschisch in the "Revue contemporaine" on 30 September 1858.
The text is a meditation on the will and the imagination, on the dark temptations that tear at the human soul and, above all, on the redemptive power of art. In it, the reader will see "a dark and solitary walker, immersed in the moving stream of multitudes."