IVIV "flower child to wasted derelict, zap, like magic." p. 36

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Sat Sep 5 16:13:36 CDT 2009


Mark Kohut wrote:
> Heroin. Which we know doc never did.
>
> Heroin. a killer drug. What's TRP's point here, 2nd reference?
> Besides that it is a killer.
>
> Such easy pleasure, without thinking much of one's future self, shall we say, was it an inherent vice of hippiedom?.......
>
> That hard drugs came in, with hard politics to destroy the beaches, so to speak?...
>
> From the mafi in Vineland. On The golden Fang here?
>

I was going to say maybe that's not his core message, more of
an observation...one of those gratuitous bits of street wisdom you
glean from reading detective novels

but perhaps that's why I'm an amateur, all these things are part of the message,
aren't they?


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"A single nonrevolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a
month of total revolution." - Paris graffito



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