I used Leary's High Priest for a paper in my Sects and Cults in American Religion class, in college. Such inspiration. A year later I found myself in Athens Greece at the Acropylus on Mushrooms. Hmm, then I came back and bleamed in Vail. It was the Vail experience that taught me a lot about trippin'. 1) Don't use coke to come down, it reaaalllly sucks and is a perfect waste of a really good drug. 2) Everything comes in waves. 3) (at the time auto reverse casette decks were new) Isn't technology a wonder. 3) Mostly, early MTV sucked to come down with. I really could have used some Tom and Jerry cartoons.

As for ZAMM.

I really find it hard to read. I always get to the second book, and start relating on so many levels that it bothers me, and rather than face my demons and finish the book I put it down. I am resigned to the fact that I may never finish that book.

I did spend a summer reading some of the classics, that I never got to in college or high school, like Moby Dick, what a tome. I like Billy Budd so much the better. I tried to get through some Joyce, but opted out for Grapes of Wrath, Stienbeck, I think he was the original Beat. Faulkner, and Hemmingway. If I could finish my novel writing, I would hope it would be like one of them or McInvery or Bret Easton Ellis.