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[Ancient History]

The place was Dream Haven books, the price was $12. I have a habit, born of many long journeys dealing with limited resources, of rooting around after I've found what I was looking for, to see what else there might be of interest. In this case, my primary target was H.P. Lovecraft's Letters to Robert Bloch Supplement, and the extra goodies I carried up to the checkout was a very fine copy of Spawn of Cthulhu and a slim yellow pamphlet that announced itself as The Compleat Lovecraftian Bar Guide - A Compendium of Cthulhu Mythological, denomiacal, and diabolical beverages: their preparation, uses, and history (G. E. Drake and Sherry Taylor, The Golden Goblin Press, 1976) - and it was signed by Drake.

The foreword is one page and, if I'm any sort of judge, practically perfect for the product. It states the intent and reasoning behind the project, and recounts Samuel Loveman's anecdote about Lovecraft's spiked drink. The second page is a copy of the drinking song from Lovecraft's "The Tomb" - again, exactly perfect for such an endeavor. The rest of the book, while entertaining and full of several tasty-sounding drink recipes, falls a little short however. Part of this is due to layout - slim as the pamphlet is, they could easily have crammed in at least 50% more drink recipes with no loss of readability. As it is, there are many pages with huge gaps of blank paper between brief, brief recipes.

The recipes themselves all have colorful Lovecraftian names like the Klarkash-Tonic, Zadok Allen's Zombie, Gin and Miskatonic, Cthulhu's Revenge, and Whately Wallbanger but aside from a few interesting exceptions, have nothing to do their supposed inspirations. For example, the recipe for a Chaugnar Faugn Frappe consists of:

[Stahlseele]

what it not all gives O.o
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[Schwarzkopf]

Thank you for making me know that this is.
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[Winnah]

When you mix hash oil with alcohol, the cannibanoids are absorbed by the liquid to create a tincture. The main reason you would create a hash tincture is to dose yourself, under the tongue or by gargling the Alhazred cocktail. The alcohol acts as a catalyst for fast sublingual absorption into the bloodstream. Probably a faster high, with a reduced duration. The reduced duration of intoxication is notable, considering the potency of hash oil compared to the other products derived from Cannabis sativa

[Prak_Anima]

I should tell my stoner friend about that cocktail. Rum is one of the few alcohols he can drink (celiac).
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