I wanted to try all those other doors except the last one. Pot, hashish, and LSD were very good to me (never a single bad trip), but their revelations were too hard to hold onto. As I came down from a psychedelic high, I could barely translate the truths about the fourth dimension ...
Except for the Grateful Dead. They had a different theory of the economics, which led to a different business model, which led to a different announcement before the show: “Tape all you want! Make all the bootlegs you want, trade them, swap them, sell them to each other....
dixie asks. dixie is my 13-year-old daughter, who, a few days earlier, had been told that her special trip with her father needed to be interrupted for the better part of a day so that he might pay a call on tom wolfe. “eighty-five,” i say. “but he’s a very young 85....
(steel balls for Edison, a key for Dali) and allow themselves to nod off — but not all the way into REM sleep. When their hands went limp, the objects would clatter to the floor, waking them up. Edison would grab a notebook, Dali would grab a sketchbook, and furious recording of...