Several years ago I read Althea Hayter's excellent Opium and the Romantic Imagination; today I picked up The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics.
For Aram's birthday, we went to see the Shotgun Players' production of Moliere's The Miser. When I told my father, he asked, "Did you go to Zachary's too?" And of course we had.