LSD, JFK, CIA?

MalignD at aol.com MalignD at aol.com
Tue Aug 7 15:31:04 CDT 2001


<<I doubt that Huxley's Doors of Perception enjoyed as much popular, 
mainstream success, and expect that instead its reception was limited to a 
rather restricted group of literary intellectuals (that would be the way 
Huxley's books are received now, every sophomore reads Brave New World, but 
rare is the reader who has even heard of Doors of Perception).  >>

Where do you get this idea?  Antic Hay, Crome Yellow, Point/Counterpoint, 
Doors of Perception, Eyeless in Gaza, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan--all 
are in print, have been pretty much since they were written.  Rare, perhaps, 
is the reader as myopic as you.

<<I'd argue that only fairly hip fans of The Beatles realized when Sgt. Pepper

came out that they were singing about LSD.>>

Only "fairly hip fans" equated Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds with LSD?  
Please.

  




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