Joyce, Dublin, Dubliners & the Summer of Love

Dipanjan Maitra dipanjan.hauntedinkbottle at gmail.com
Fri Jun 15 10:48:39 CDT 2012


Happy Bloomsday everyone! The good news this year, as you may already know,
is that the National Library of Ireland has now made online in digital
formats a large section of its Joyce MS collection. This includes several
early notebooks, drafts for 'Sirens' and some 'Pre-Work in Progress'
papers. A treat in short. Here's a link:
http://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000194606

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>wrote:

> On 6/15/2012 7:43 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:
>
>>
>> The so called 'Arab Spring' has, except for the fact that young people
>> from the middle class are involved, nothing to to with the so called
>> 'Summer of Love'.
>>
>> Augustus Owsley Stanley at times mixed meth into the acid. He said it
>> "adds clarity to the trip".
>>
>> (see Charles Perry: The Haight-Ashbury. A History.)
>>
>> And Jerry Garcia, old polytoxic he was, died not simply from "heart
>> failure" yet from trying to undo his heroin addiction.
>>
>> Things probably weren't that 'spiritual' at all ...
>>
>> Also read that Grace Slick did acid and weed just for the media and was
>> actually an --- alcoholic.
>>
>
>
> Acid and Weed'll never replace good Scotch or chilled Stoly.
>
>
> P
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>>
>> On 15.06.2012 11:45, alice wellintown wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.vanityfair.com/**culture/2012/07/lsd-drugs-**
>>> summer-of-love-sixties<http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/07/lsd-drugs-summer-of-love-sixties>
>>> http://www.todayinliterature.**com/index.asp<http://www.todayinliterature.com/index.asp>
>>>
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