Kawfee Tawk

[Kato du Bois]

I heard recently (in one ear unfortunately for I was half-awake myself and 
in need of that first cup o' joe) a fellow on NPR, plugging his book on the 
History of Caffeine, discuss the elevation of the coffe bean past the 
continual consumption of beer and fermented beverages, such as your "beer 
soup", John, yeeeach, and THEN, how this led a much more amped-up and 
time-conscious culture to believe in the need of a much more ubiquitous 
presence of clocks and timepieces ...

... perhaps an NPR listener out there who heard the gent more clearly, or 
may know more than I on the subject, or may even have this gent's book could 
expound ...

... another book I may have to dig up for this is Terrence MacKenna's "Food 
of the Gods" ... a good and thorough history of drug use, abuse, and 
benefits, in the West, the East, and in shamanic cultures ... as you might 
guess, it is usually the West that comes off as the exploiter of many 
substances and/or their producers or users ...

love

K d B




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