Acid Dreams

[Jan Klimkowski]

A few scattered thoughts:

Terence McKenna - one-third of the Holy Trinity completed by Ralph Abraham 
and Rupert Sheldrake - is of course the author of the stimulating Food of 
the Gods.

As I've opined before, I think there are suggestions in Siegel's Playboy 
piece that our hero actually became Rocketman for a few brief moments at the 
end of the Sixties.

One of the most fascinating claims of Acid Dreams is that the CIA had the 
ability to turn perhaps the largest LSD supply in the States in the latter 
part of the Sixties on and off pretty much at will.  This is, of course, 
paranoia...

I seem to remember Olderman writing a very interesting piece on Pynchon and 
dope in one of those 1980s collection of TP essays.

And finally, I think it's in Acid Dreams that the wonderful story of the US 
7th Cavalry turned Airmobile Unit (as featured in Apocalypse Now, with 
choppers having replaced horses) using BZ grenades in Vietnam is told.  I 
love the smell of Oneirine in the morning....

jan