Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense perceptions as an independent phenomenon was something we did only to make out study of them easier. They are part of the whole thing that is you. And they only mean anything when it is seen how they fit in with the whole that is you in your given moment of being...
...true that taking a "drug" usually locks you into experiencing you actions through a given fixed perspective for as long as you are under the drug's influence. If, for example, you take LSD, you've got to be ready for clear light, revelation, and ego transcendence for the next eight hours or more. (A lot of people don't think they are ready for this. And since there is no real condition of being ready for an experience or not being ready, what they think they are capable of is all that matters...
People who take things to excess is something we see all around us, and something that we, in most cases, have accepted. Just because most of our population is obese because they are helplessly self-indulgent when given easy access to mashed potatoes, this doesn't mean mashed potatoes should be made illegal. And any heart specialist knows obesity kills...
...short, the capacity for learning under dexedrine is absolutely astounding. Given the way most Hum and Soc Sci courses are set up now, the average dexedrined student should be assured of at least a B if he started from scratch the day before the test. In most of the courses that the masses take at this university, he could understand and organize in his mind the entire content of study. It's all a matter of maximizing your efforts...
...rest of the "boys" arrive. But some of the party guests beat Alan to the scene: Hank, an Ivy-League-looking married math teacher and his lover, Larry; Bernard, a cool black; Emory, a prissy, feminine interior decorator. By the time Harold (the birthday boy), Cowboy (a hustler being given to Harold for the night as a gift) and Alan appear, the flow of liquor has locked all those present into a violent carnival of sadistic-masochistic emotional destruction; no one may leave until he touches the bottom of his soul and accepts what he finds there...