Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harry's new girl friend tells him that she may be falling in love with a young poet, pale and philosophic. "Plato, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, St. Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Roger Bacon, David Hume, Paracelsus, Bishop Berkeley, Immanuel Kant, Herbert Spencer, Descartes and Pico della Mirandola," says Harry, proving himself the young man's intellectual peer. This Harry is a versatile man with words as well as ideas. When a street singer ambles past him, he tells the street singer in Anglo-Saxon syllables to go copulate with a duck...
...stream-of-consciousness style that surely owes its incoherence to the influence of psilocybin. Their thesis, if one may use so conventional a word, is that hallucinogens have brought us to the brink of a psychic revolution, the leaders of which (Leary and Alpert) are comparable to Socrates, Bacon, Columbus, and Galileo. Their message, if they are indeed prophets, is that drugs are good to eat: "Remember" they conclude, "man's natural state is ecstatic wonder, ecstatic intuition, ecstatic accurate movement. Don't settle for less...
...Bacon...
...results of this year's meet came as a shock since the Crimson second team of John Leibacher, William Bacon, and Jack Lawrence with a total of 60 jumps between its members defeated a number of highly favored opponents, in particular the first team, a 600 jump unit. The first unit includes Nickolas Soutter, Bob Thompson, and Dave Wigner...
...Reader Carnes mind his language. As Francis Bacon said: "Such dispositions are the very errors of human nature; and yet they are the fittest timber to make politics...