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...last party," says Leary. He fondly recalls the 1963 deathbed vigil for Aldous Huxley: Leary brought him a new translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as well as the LSD that the author of Brave New World took just before he shuffled off this mortal coil. "He was so cheerful and funny," says Leary. "So sarcastic and all that." When Laura Huxley visited recently, she returned the favor not with illicit drugs but rather with a white magnifying glass that Leary uses for reading...
Overseas radio is cheap (a good receiver and coil of copper wire cost less than $300), and unlike the Web, coexists effortlessly with washing dishes, pumping the stepping machine or restoring rowboats, nourishing the mind while the body relaxes from hours-long keyboard pounding. It breaks listeners free of computer-terminal chairs and of the monolingual sterility imposed by address and job, but it rewards best those who know more than English and who listen in the clear-air hours just after five in the morning or after eight at night...
...emotion and their primal immediacy which also surface in the frequently sexually explicit profanity. Yet the beauty and despair of certain scenes--from the opening shot of a subway roaring above a maddened Brando to his visit to his dead wife--makes one understand how the over wound coil of primitive emotion at the core of the movie would give rise to such carnality...
...morning, a serpent of lights begins to coil up Mount Sinai--up the path Moses took, a sparkling procession of tourists' flashlights. As dawn arrives, you see less lovely effects--the litter of candy wrappers, soda cans and Kodachrome boxes people have discarded on the ascent...
Already the comparisons have been made between Cobain and the pantheon of dead rockers that have pantheon of dead rockers that have piled up over the years. While it cannot be denied that Cobain was rocker and is now dead, the way he shuffled off this mortal coil differed drastically from his new analogy-mates...