VLVL2 today in history: LSD

[pynchonoid]

[...]  Apr.7
Things that happened on this day that you never had to
memorize in school:

[...] 1943: Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD. [...] 

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[...]   LSD
"Sandoz (where. . .Dr. Hofman made his. .
.discovery)," 250; "You interested in some L.S.D.?" -
260; "the indole crowd. They're very elitist. They see
themselves at the end of a long European dialectic,
generations of blighted grain, ergotism, witches on
broomsticks, community orgies, cantons lost up there
in folds of mountain that haven't known an
unhallucinated day in the last 500 years" 261; "Micro"
Graham, 295; Devil behind the mirror, 444; "a touch of
acid," 586; See also Bummer, Säure; dope
L.S.D.
260; Latin: Libra, solidi and denarii = "Pounds,
shillings, pence"  [...]

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Thanks again, Tim Ware....





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