De Quincey, who never crossed the Channel, who never raised his hand against anyone, he was one of the great English adventurers, who was carrying a bottle of laudanum silence your library that Peru strangest realms. The random reading moved him to recreate duels, chases and wrecks of a girl, a girl's shadow, which gave life not documents that are not occupied in reading, but his own imagination, splendid and tormented .