From Martin Stevens
Further to the correspondence regarding the dynamism of Lincolnshire life (26 November, p 23), in his book The Pursuit Of Oblivion: A social history of drugs, Richard Davenport-Hines speculates that high levels of opiate use in 18th-century Lincolnshire were possibly due to life in the county being “so dull…that it was rarely worthwhile to remain fully conscious”. Little has changed, wallpaper exhibitions notwithstanding.
Lincoln, UK
