Prepping the IV

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jul 26, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Campbel Morgan wrote:

> Yeah, everything connects. To what? To whom? Why? Wha


	For 15 minutes the two of them run screaming all over the suite,
	staggering around in circles, lined up with the rooms' diagonals.
	There is in Laszlo Jamf's celebrated molecule a particular twist,
	the so-called "Pokier singularity," occurring in a certain crippled
	indole ring, which later Oneirinists, academician and working
	professional alike, are generally agreed is responsible for the
	hallucinations which are unique to this drug. Not only
	audiovisual, they touch all senses, equally. And they recur.
	Certain themes, "mantic archetypes" (as Jollifox of the
	Cambridge School has named them), will find certain
	individuals again and again, with a consistency which has been
	well demonstrated in the laboratory (see Wobb and Whoaton,
	"Mantic Archetype Distribution Among Middle-Class University
	Students," J. Oneir. Psy. Pharm., XXIII, pg. 406-453). Because
	analogies with the ghost:-life exist, this recurrence
	phenomenon is known, in the jargon, as "haunting." Whereas
	other sorts of hallucinations tend to flow by, related in deep
	ways that aren't accessible to the casual dopefiend, these
	Oneirine hauntings show a definite narrative continuity, as
	clearly as, say, the average Reader's Digest article. Often they
	are so ordinary, so conventional-—Jeaach calls them "the
	dullest hallucinations known to psychopharmacology"—that
	they are only recognized as hauntings through some radical
	though plausible violation of possibility: the presence of the
	dead, journeys by the same route and means where one
	person will set out later but arrive earlier, a printed diagram
	which no amount of light will make readable .... On recognizing
	that he is being haunted, the subject enters immediately into
	"phase two," which, though varying in intensity from subject to
	subject, is always disagreeable: often sedation (0.6 mg atropine
	subcut.) will be necessary, even though Oneirine is classified
	as a CNS depressant.

	About the paranoia often noted under the drug, there is nothing
	remarkable. Like other sorts of paranoia, it is nothing less than
	the onset, the leading edge, of the discovery that everything is
	connected, everything in the Creation, a secondary
	illumination-not yet blindingly One, but at least connected, and
	perhaps a route In for those like Tchitcherine who are held at
	the edge ....
	GR, V 702/703, B 819/820, P 716/717