I think Ted was a speed freak for awhile, maybe a very long while. Its the perfect drug for a writer along with alcohol it manages to marry the unconscious and subconscious together. Assume he was doing both.

He wrote some good stuff, there's a piece I remember reading about the whole semi-detached and detached housing; what an impressive thing this was to those who had come out of the squaler of the Thirties and horror of the war. Consequently, the baby boomers were indulged like no other generation before and since.