![]() ![]() ![]() In subsequent issues of Blackwood’s, Mullion will again wake, eat, shave, and interact with the other characters of “Noctes” in a unique dimension where the boundaries between reality and fiction are blurred in the service of the magazine’s cultural, literary, and political interests. For he, like the Shepherd and the Opium-Eater, is a character created for a textual world, embodied in print, not flesh. “The Shepherd” has a point of course Mullion will be fine. ![]() I’ll wauger he’ll be eating twa eggs to his breakfast the morn, and a shave o’ the red roun’ lurking frae him a’ the time wi’een as sharp as darnin’ needles, and paunin’ in his cup for mair sugar. Mullion will fall into a state of utter insensibility in a couple of hours. Eat a’ the kidneys! –That he did, I’ll swear. Mullion did really eat all the kidneys, he must now have in his stomach that which is about equal to five hundred and seventy drops of laudanum. I must give this case, in a note, to a new edition of my Confessions. In the twelfth installment of “Noctes Ambrosiane,” the popular, dialogic serial that appeared in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine between March 1822 and February 1835, the magazine’s editors enjoy supper with “The English Opium-Eater.” All is going well until the Opium-Eater spills a few grains of opium onto a plate of kidneys, which are then consumed by “Mr. ![]()
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