Word: ve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yeah. I -- look, I've got some dope. Wow. Hang loose...
...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...
There are many aspects of this peculiar chemistry which I think are like things we've seen before. For example, every university's faculty (and ours is no exception) has its meditative old scholars who are known to sit quietly reading through even hellishly noisy events going on around them. They are probably achieving a total communication with the author. But the chemistry which got them to this state comes from their entirely book-oriented life style. Dexedrine can drop a student into a book no matter what kind of rock 'n'roll life he leads. (Remember, there...
...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 the previous sentence (don't try to); you, too, will have an understanding that is limited to the moment. (The title is borrowed from Harvard's most vast building...
...ve been the favorite in this tournament ever since I've been here," says Levin, "and we've never quite been able to win it. This year it will be different. We really want the team title...