Sometimes I love google...

[orphius]

...because it lets me find things like this:
"Do you know the sum total of my ambition? It's to have an intelligent, well-read man shut himself up with my book for four hours and to give him an orgy of historical hashish. That's all I want." --Gustave Flaubert, Jan 1860, while writing his book about Carthage

and the best part is I was actually

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[mentarossa]

...remind me to include some historical hashish in whatever books I end up writing.

Because, yes.