ATDTDA (14) p 393 / 394

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

-------- unknowingly covered p 393 on previous memo:
but the girl, who
had flown often...etc

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394 --- whirling colors including magenta,
low-brilliancy turquoise, and a peculiarly pale,
wriggling violet,"
there is some evidence that psychoactive drugs
enhance visual acuity**

"El Espinero's wife was neither mute nor shy...
but she never spoke a word to Frank, only looked
at him with great sympathy and directness, as if there 
was something so obvious he ought to be seeing....
He was certain beyond words that she was the 
invisible beating heart of whatever had brought
the family south into danger from the Mexican army,
but none of them were about to share the reason
with Frank."

I tend to think they came down there to, like,
test him, and he didn't, um, pass...

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**or at least Terence McKenna, psychedelic
pioneer who spent time in arroyos, thought so:

Terence McKenna grew up in a small, highly religious 
town in western Colorado. Unusually poor eyesight 
forced him to wear bifocals at an early age. 
This and his nonathletic nature made him an outcast,
and he spent much of his childhood alone. He was 
introduced to the subject of geology by his uncle 
and developed a hobby of solitary fossil hunting 
in the ***arroyos*** near his home. 
[he believed] psilocybin -- which in small doses 
provides an increased visual acuity, in slightly 
larger doses a physical sexual arousal and in still 
larger doses full-on ecstatic hallucinations and 
glossolalia -- gave evolutionary advantages to 
those tribes who partook of it....
[and that] that synesthesia (the blurring of 
boundaries between the senses) caused by psilocybin 
led to the development of spoken language: the 
ability to form pictures in another person's mind 
through the use of vocal sounds.