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I highly recommend the book of the same title—a collection of her essays. I read it year or two ago, and it's excellent: gorgeous writing, and definitely a tou
by Amorymeltzer 9mo ago
I highly recommend the book of the same title—a collection of her essays. I read it year or two ago, and it's excellent: gorgeous writing, and definitely a touchstone of the time. "I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not," from "On Keeping a Notebook," is something I think about a lot.
The essay itself is, of course, fantastic, but I find that, although she specifically tells us not to, it is impossible not to dwell on young children taking acid.
- bryanrasmussen 9mo ago>although she specifically tells us not to, it is impossible not to dwell on young children taking acid. well any of those young kids taking acid would be coming up on retirement age now, so I guess the reasonable thing would be to try to find out how it all went.
- trhway 9mo agoI'm sure their files have been paid necessary attention to deep inside some 3-letter agency. One hell of a coincidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haight_Ashbury_Free_Clinic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haight_Ashbury_Free_Clinic "Louis Jolyon West—a LSD researcher involved in MKUltra—lived near the clinic, and was allowed by Smith to recruit clients for experiments.[7]"
- scarmig 9mo agoAll files related to MKUltra were destroyed in 1973, at the orders of CIA director Richard Helms. So, not so much. Guess the CIA really didn't want their experiments with Charles Manson to come to light. (Yes, yes, there only exists circumstantial evidence of a CIA/Manson connection. Because they burned the files.)