peapod said:Yes, well he wrote the book on mescline..an experiment of sorts...
I took my pill at eleven. An hour and a half later, I was sitting in my study, looking intently at a small glass vase. The vase contained only three flowers-a full-blown Belie of Portugal rose, shell pink with a hint at every petal's base of a hotter, flamier hue; a large magenta and cream-colored carnation; and, pale purple at the end of its broken stalk, the bold heraldic blossom of an iris. Fortuitous and provisional, the little nosegay broke all the rules of traditional good taste.
I continued to look at the flowers, and in their living light I seemed to detect the qualitative equivalent of breathing -but of a breathing without returns to a starting point, with no recurrent ebbs but only a repeated flow from beauty to heightened beauty, from deeper to ever deeper meaning. Words like "grace" and "transfiguration" came to my mind, and this, of course, was what, among other things, they stood for.
Perhaps some mescline might be in order :lol: :lol:
Jay said:What happened to the book I recommended for you to read?
Jay said:It isn't an easy read at all. I haven't made it as far as you have. It's good though, eh?
Next time I will recommend a "Curious George" book. Boy does that monkey get into trouble!![]()
Colpy said:Currently reading "America: A Narrative History" by Gerge Brown Tindall.
Adams was great.
Was disappointed in the movie, loved the old English TV series.
I think not said:Jay said:It isn't an easy read at all. I haven't made it as far as you have. It's good though, eh?
Next time I will recommend a "Curious George" book. Boy does that monkey get into trouble!![]()
It's very good, I will have to read it a couple of times at least to absorb it.
I think by the time I'm finished with it, I'll forget page 1.![]()
Jay said:I think not said:Jay said:It isn't an easy read at all. I haven't made it as far as you have. It's good though, eh?
Next time I will recommend a "Curious George" book. Boy does that monkey get into trouble!![]()
It's very good, I will have to read it a couple of times at least to absorb it.
I think by the time I'm finished with it, I'll forget page 1.![]()
Like I said before, it is a reference book.
I like the way he described civilization influences and such, in the beginning of the book.