Albert Hofmann, requiescat in pace ...

[braam van bruggen]

so far as i can see, the only problems that ever arose were
about ego-loss. people got frightened when they saw that they did'nt
exist independently, could'nt see that they were part of a larger matrix...
all part of natural selection really..

braam

 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: Albert Hofmann, requiescat in pace ...


> Page wrote:
>> What's the "problem"? Did I miss something?
>>
> 
> I read _LSD, My Problem Child_ a few years ago.
> It was quite good.  If you like that sort of thing...non-technical
> memoirs of a scientist...(personally I love them)
> 
> I think that he didn't have any problem with the drug itself,
> but with its indiscriminate popularization...
> maybe not even with that, but with legal and even epidemiological
> problems stemming from broadcast advocacy
> regardless of whether it'd be appropriate for an individual...
> 
> RIP indeed - invent a new drug, live 102 years - a body could do worse...
>