Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind-altering drugs change what you want to do. On this end of things their impact is probably for greater than other stimuli. But it is still only an extrapolation of the kinds of effects you get from food, light, and heat...
...reading of a book. The total fibre of the dexedrine-doped person's being is riveted to the ideas flowing to him out of the book. Not to the action of looking at the printed words, but to the act of understanding the expression of the author's mind...
...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...
...also tend to dissociate yourself from that which isn't neat and ordered (because your mind is so incredibly ordered). If you have been chewing the top of a Bic pen in your zeal, you would probably leave it behind somewhere, not remembering you need it to cover the pen's point, because you wouldn't believe that such a crumpled thing could belong to the set of objects that had to do with...
HERE WE HAVE a fine example of a story written by two people who had just smoked mind-altering drugs. Think of it what you will. But if you want to "get something out of it," notice the way each idea in the story is attached only to its own moment. Images and events more than two sentences apart in this story bear no relation to each other. The mind-altered writer exists in the instant of his awareness. As you read the story, you will probably not be able to remember anything you've read longer ago than...