IVIV Hope Harlingen: ( spoilers)
Robin Landseadel
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Fri Sep 11 11:41:47 CDT 2009
. . . if acid-tripping was good for anything, it helped tune you to
different unlisted frequencies. . .
IV, Chapter five, page 61
See also:
Doc would bet an ounce of seedless Hawaiian and throw in a
pack of Zig-Zags that Sloane and old Riggs here were also
fucking regularly, and that this was the b.f. Shasta had
mentioned.
On Sep 11, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Joseph Tracy wrote:
> I know this is heretical in today's world, but I think LSD was one
> route to spiritual insights that are far more powerful and permanent
> than the outward cultural paraphenalia and fads of the 60's, 70's.
> They are also ultimately the least escapist or self-medicating/
> numbing of drugs.
It reaches parts the toothbrush can't!
> If Wolfmann is the collector, the owner, the objectifier, the
> winner; Doc, despite similar attractions, is the open door the
> pursuer of mysteries, the beach bum, the visionary of another world
> (with adequate legal counsel).
The Doctor of the Doors, wearing a laurel wreath. A psychopomp P.I.,—
yet another kind of "Psychical Detective."
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