Anirvan Chatterjee on Nostr: Nobody could pronounce his name, so people called the cow milker on the Curran Farm ...
Nobody could pronounce his name, so people called the cow milker on the Curran Farm "Old James."
He would chant "weird songs," and wander through the hills of Berkeley and Oakland.
James apparently spent much of his time in a trance—not from meditation, but from opium.
(Opium dependence wasn't uncommon among Asian laborers in California, who used it both recreationally and medicinally, providing for relief from the grueling work conditions and isolation of working class immigrant life.)
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He would chant "weird songs," and wander through the hills of Berkeley and Oakland.
James apparently spent much of his time in a trance—not from meditation, but from opium.
(Opium dependence wasn't uncommon among Asian laborers in California, who used it both recreationally and medicinally, providing for relief from the grueling work conditions and isolation of working class immigrant life.)
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