“He shook his head violently, pulled himself together and swallowed a stiff dose of Infradex, a drug designed to alleviate drug reactions. Within seconds he was his old, normally depressed self. This cheered him considerably, and he left the hut in a mood teetering on the edge of equanimity.”

—  Robert Sheckley

Source: The 10th Victim (1965), Chapter 15 (p. 125)

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