Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Authors Margolis and Clorfene, who are comedy writers and (they claim) nonusers, begin with the beginner and tell him what to expect. There is no initial kick or jolt from grass, they say, and "there is no way you are 'supposed' to feel." But among the feelings that may happen are a slow general euphoria, the discovery that everything is funny (even "your friend's teeth are a riot"), and a minute fascination with whatever little thing the smoker happens to be doing. Occasionally smokers are affected by a sense of paranoia, an inability to remember...
They send out waves of joy that jolt an audience right out of the glooms and start it stamping floors and pounding fists on chairs. They have no need of costumes or choreography. Soloists leap forward as if by pure impulse. The rest let themselves be caught up by the sound they create, shouting when they like, dancing when the excitement grabs them, hands flying, arms waving to exhort each other...