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quoted Video night in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer (Vintage departures)

Pico Iyer: Video night in Kathmandu (1989, Vintage Books) No rating

Religion was a drug to some and and drugs were a religion to others. In Kathmandu some people lapsed into a narcotic haze and called it Buddhist serenity, while others had opiate dreams and called them visions. "Drugs" and "gurus," they told themselves, were almost anagrams; the high and the holy were virtual synonyms.

Video night in Kathmandu by  (Vintage departures) (Page 83 - 84)