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Saturday, May 27, 2006

Tiny Jeweled Violet Flowers


From a 1966 letter by Allen Ginsburg, describing an LSD experience in Big Sur, California:

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake’s illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet’s oceanic horizon. No harm.

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