NP Tom Robbins

[Doug Millison]

No Pynchon mention in the Salon article about Tom Robbins, highlighting his
use of LSD, at
http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/03/09/robbins/index.html

"It's part of Robbins' mythology that, in 1963, he tried acid for the first
time. It was the early days of psychedelics and LSD was still legal.
Robbins had coaxed a pharmacology professor into letting him try the drug.
He told Rolling Stone magazine that the day of his first trip, July 16, was
the most rewarding of his life. Robbins said that after dropping the acid,
he sat in a chair for eight hours, not moving except to go to the bathroom.
The next six months were, literally, a trip. He couldn't read or write, and
he eventually quit his job as an art critic for the Seattle Times and moved
to New York to better explore the depth and breadth of acid trips. A few
years later he started writing his first novel."

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