Word: maguey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Florentine, he knew it was somewhere under Tuscany. For Malcolm Lowry, a 20th century mystic, it lay under the volcano that looks down on Cuernavaca in Mexico and inside a bottle of mescal, a drink as hallucinatory, it seems, as mescaline, a drug which is also derived from the maguey cactus...
...show in himself, as always. He wears black leather suits, white hunter's outfits and long striped muu muus. He has a tawny Anglo-Iranian girl named Zoë: with him. He has also made the happy discovery of raicilla, a 180-proof distillate of the maguey plant that is far more potent than tequila. "If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine," says Burton...