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Friday, June 2, 2023

Acid Test

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:24 am

"Boro makes Jim Jones look like Jim Henson."

FUBAR, Netflix, Episode 1 (May 25, 2023)

"In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , Tom Wolfe writes about encountering 
'a young psychologist,' 'Clifton Fadiman’s nephew, it turned out,' in the
waiting room of the San Mateo County jail. Fadiman and his wife were
'happily stuffing three I-Ching coins into some interminable dense volume*
of Oriental mysticism' that they planned to give Ken Kesey, the Prankster-
in-Chief whom the FBI had just nabbed after eight months on the lam.
Wolfe had been granted an interview with Kesey, and they wanted him to
tell their friend about the hidden coins. During this difficult time, they
explained, Kesey needed oracular advice."

— Tim Doody in The Morning News  web 'zine on July 26, 2012

Related material — Brown Acid.

* The volume Wolfe mentions was, according to Fadiman, the I Ching.

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