V-2nd, Chap 7

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Tue Sep 28 09:38:01 CDT 2010


One guy became the Temperance card [Atu 14] and flew over Berkeley.

On Sep 28, 2010, at 7:30 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> there was a time, not so long ago, when a lot of people I knew had
> such experiences.  Somewhere there came up an inhibition about talking
> about them: "oh, there's old so-and-so, going on about his trips
> again"
>
> I never concurred in that, but I suspect it did arise for a reason.  I
> have errands and chores to do, sleep to fit in sometime, Chapter 8
> lying naked in the tub, and I'm still tempted to start a big
> "tripping" thread...
>
> how about a top 5 things I've heard people say or said about trips
>
> 5) one guy was talking about how he saw all these miniature spacemen
> come into the room and was blasting them with his imaginary ray gun /
> this is tied with this other guy who thought he was a frog and took
> off all his clothes and was hopping around and his girlfriend came
> over and they made sweet love (I wasn't there for either of those...)
>
> 4) one girl (this was a girl whose boyfriend had filed teeth...) said
> "I love mescaline!  It's great for fighting!"
>
> c) one guy saw a birthday cake with pictures of all the presidents  
> on it
>
> d) one guy I met in jail was talking about how he tripped and couldn't
> stop wondering whether camels eat donuts
>
> e) one guy started to flip out when a bunch of us were walking on the
> publicly-available beautiful grounds of a private school: he said,
> "I'm going crazy!"
> Luckily my other friend had the presence of mind to ask him, "What
> will you eat?"
> By answering "roots and berries," he brought himself back to  
> himself...




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