295.36: ' "Micro" Graham '

[Doug Millison]

Eric may have added this detail (his messages come through without any text
for me, probably something to do with his email settings as somebody else
suggested), but micrograms are also the dosage units for LSD.

I'm puzzled by David's comments re 60s vs 90s LSD.  LSD is LSD. Higher or
lower doses, maybe; or perhaps the current item is adulterated in some way.
Having said that, I have it on good authority that the Orange Sunshine and
Clear Light (aka Windowpane) in 1969 and 1970 was indeed righteous, space
travel material. One reason was that the hits included a large dose (250
mikes, if memory serves, the case of Orange Sunshine), and experienced
trippers often took two or more hits.

"The Promise of Space Travel" murals sound a lot like the pictures in
Disneyland's Tomorrowland, not all that far from one of the centers of the
U.S. aerospace industry. The parallels grow even stronger when we get to
Pokler's story and Zwolfkinder.

Nice try, Kai, but I still don't buy the straightforward identification of
LSD=death. In his elaboration of the chemical industry cartel, TRP seems to
clearly associate with death and War those *people and corporations* that
have co-opted the psychedelic experience and who have tried to control it
through synthesis, but the novel as a whole seems to rather joyfully affirm
the psychedelic experience in itself.  When you get right down to it,
melting into the landscape, talking to the trees and listening to them talk
back, Slothrop's travel through his own repressed racial and American
ideas, and the rest of the novel's hallucinatory material could come as
easily from LSD as from mushrooms or from any number of synthesized
psychedelics.  Terrance and I exchanged several posts on this topic awhile
back.

Speaking of MDMA, isn't the active ingredient in nutmeg (Osbie's choice in
the early innings) chemically similar?  I thought I read something like
that recently.


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