Lucy in the Sky
with Diamonds
and Sacred Heart
PARIS — Albert Hofmann, the mystical Swiss chemist who gave the world LSD, the most powerful psychotropic substance known, died Tuesday at his hilltop home near Basel, Switzerland. He was 102.
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and
a film by Julie Taymor,
Across the Universe:
Detail of the
Strawberry Fields Forever
Sacred Heart:
A song:Julie Taymor
“Shinin’ like a diamond,
she had tombstones
in her eyes.”— Album “The Dark,”
by Guy ClarkFor related tombstones,
see May 16-19, 2006,
and April 19, 2008.Further background:
Art Wars for
Red October.