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Chordata on Wednesday, January 13, 1999 - 04:17 pm:

    Man, I come from the days when drugs were drugs. We had dope where one toke would turn your hair long and your folks into raving maniacs at the dinner table. Some of the stuff, why, a single hit could transform a Catholic schoolgirl into Gomorrah on all fours, snuff your ego like a light, rotate the tires on The Great Wheel of Being and make your eyes lay eggs. See God? Shit, you could get him down in the hot tub and wash his mouth out with herbal soap. And that's if you split the blotter paper four ways. As for insights, try yage and psilocybin mushrooms mixed with mescaline and Anchor Steam beer. Gautama Buddha his own bad self comes to your house and writes out the eightfold path in lipstick on your bathroom mirror. We had drugs that would give you immortal life for thirty-six hours. And what about the time the nine-assed Peyote Demon peeled the top of my head like an orange and vomited the Enclopedia Britannica into my empty skull?
    That's what we meant by high in the old days.

    - william s. burroughs


By Markus on Wednesday, January 13, 1999 - 04:42 pm:

    Uh, no. P.J. O'Rourke.


By Ali on Wednesday, January 13, 1999 - 04:48 pm:

    how embarrassing!


By Droop on Wednesday, January 13, 1999 - 04:58 pm:

    Junk is a cellular equation that teaches the user facts of gerneral vialidity. I have learned a great deal from using junk: I have seen life measured out in eyedroppers of morphine solution. I experienced the agonizing deprivation of junk sickness, and the pleasure of relief when junk-thirsty cells drank from the needle. Perhaps all pleasure is relief. I have learned the cellular stoicism that junk teaches the user. Ihave seen a cell full of sick junkies silent and immoblie in separate misery. They knew that basically no one can help anyone else. There is no key, no secret someone else has that he can give you.

    I have learned the junk equation. Junk is not, like alcohol and weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

    -W. S. Burroughs


By Chordata on Wednesday, January 13, 1999 - 05:52 pm:

    oops, i'm sorry. i was misinformed. thanks for the correction. but burroughs IS a reason to be cheerful, anyhow.


By Chordata on Wednesday, January 13, 1999 - 05:55 pm:

    oops, i'm sorry. i was misinformed. thanks for the correction. but burroughs IS a reason to be cheerful, anyhow.


By Chordata on Wednesday, January 13, 1999 - 05:57 pm:

    oops, i'm sorry. i was misinformed. thanks for the correction. but burroughs IS a reason to be cheerful, anyhow.


By Agatha on Thursday, January 14, 1999 - 12:50 am:

    oops, i'm sorry, chordata. your entire thread seems to have gone awry.


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