Kool-Aid Corner #4
To finish: trippy clippings, merry pranks, and psychedelic student life
Graph/visual aid of the Week
The first patent for MDMA
From: The Rave: Spiritual Healing in Modern Western Subcultures by
Scott R Hutson (Anthropological Quarterly, January 2000)
My bookshelf weighs a ton
Notable new purchases for the occult library. Strictly second hand snap-ups only. This week: The Archaic Revival by Terrence McKenna.
£25 usually £100+
Stories of space narcotics by major authors collected by druid of derring-do Michael Parry (d. 2014) , including The New Accelerator by H G Wells, Subjectivity by Norman Spinrad and What to Do Until the Analyst Comes by Frederik Pohl.
Plus a superb cover naturally.
If you like this sort of thing and haven’t read The Employees, a 2020 Booker Prize nominee by Danish author Olga Ravn, a ‘disconcertingly quotidian space opera’ (The Guardian), do so at light speed.
I can’t look at books like this without being hauntd by a sci fi short story about a co-ed college on a space station where the boys get these pets called teasels. I couldn’t find any reference to it online which was chilling in itself.