Fwd: IVIV (0) Recommended Reading

[John Carvill]

Dave:
I'm assuming you resubscribed from teh new address ...

Yes. Think my posts are starting to get through now, just a little
initial constipation or something... Here goes my actual post (which
hardly seems worth all this faff but anyway)


> Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethelhem
> Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
> Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

If we're having Wolfe, we must have Hunter S Thompson, his stuff on
Kesey and the Hells Angels was much better. And of course F & L:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas

"And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory
over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we
didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point
in fighting — on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were
riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .So now, less than
five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look
West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the
high-water mark — that place where the wave finally broke and rolled
back."