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...first abstract painting to be exhibited in Paris. Some of his big abstracts from the '20s, like Around a Point, must be reckoned among the most imposing feats of modern art. And yet the fundamental subject of his work remains inaccessible. It is like hearing someone describe an LSD trip: the cosmic hoo-ha is all there, but the listener cannot experience it in the retelling. Deprived of the heavenly choir of theosophical documents, all too many of Kupka's transcendental visions finish as pattern-not an ignoble fate, but less than he intended...
...They were going to have a big reception committee meet him at the plane and a press conference and a dinner in his honor. Whew, that was too much. I called up the government and told them just who this guy Leary is and what he had done, with LSD and everything, and they cancelled their plans pretty quick...
...Have you ever taken LSD, Eldridge?" Bruce asked...
...Leary is completely crazy. His mind is really fizzled away. He can talk pretty coherently, but what he chooses to talk about is really crazy. Man, Leary was a big problem. Because wherever he'd go, there would be kids following him, kids who he had turned on to LSD. They were coming back to their guru, convinced that he could get their head back together again and no one else could...
...1950s the CIA began experimenting with saxitoxin at Fort Detrick, Md., where it also carried out the notorious LSD experiments that led to, among other things, the long hushed-up death of Biochemist Frank Olson (TIME, July 21). Researchers took contaminated butter clams and distilled the poison from them through a costly process. According to sources close to Church's panel, the CIA used saxitoxin in suicide pills for its own agents (U2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers had one, but chose to pass it up) and had it on hand to eliminate troublesome guard dogs when breaking into embassies...