"rug-taking as a hobby and an escape into what Baudelaire, writing about drugs in 1858, was to call our ???artificial paradises.??? what is nice about that phrase of Baudelaire's is the way it packs three ideas into two words: that drugs are ???paradise,??? i.e., they make you feel good; but that the paradise is fake; and that, in any case, paradise was a place we were expelled from." . . . . .