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bardobailey wrote:previous post: send that kid Mark Vonnegut's book. forgot the title... (something?) Express.
“I am mad - but I choose this madness”
— Gloria Anzaldua
I am a wind-swayed bridge, a crossroads inhabited by whirlwinds … You say my name is ambivalence? Think of me as Shiva, a many-armed and legged body with one foot on brown soil, one on white, one in straight society, one in the gay world, the man’s world, the women’s, one limb in the literary world, another in the working class, the socialist, and the occult worlds. A sort of spider woman hanging by one thin strand of web.
Who, me confused? Ambivalent? Not so. Only your labels split me.
--Gloria Anzaldúa, from ‘La Prieta’
“My certainties breakfast on doubts. And there are days when I feel like a stranger in Montevideo and anywhere else. On those days, days without sunshine, moonless nights, no place is my own and I do not recognize myself in anything or anyone. Words do not resemble what they refer to or even correspond to their own sounds. Then I am not where I am. I leave my body and travel far, heading nowhere, and I do not want to be with anybody, not even with myself, and I have no name nor wish to have any: then I lose all desire to call myself or be called.”
—Eduardo Galeano “Dazed Days”, The Book of Embraces
American Dream wrote:
U.S. Army Chemical Corps InsigniaIt was 1974 and Pickard went to San Francisco's federal building to pay his respects.
Tim Scully was on trial for making huge batches of LSD in a Sonoma County farmhouse. Scully believed the drug could raise people's consciousness and had bluntly told the court he had wanted to "turn on the world."
"There was a break, and I walked out into the hall, and he introduced himself as a fellow chemist," recalled Scully, once an "apprentice" to Augustus Owsley Stanley III, the most infamous psychedelic sorcerer of the '60s.
Pickard smiled and handed Scully a U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Group pin with a flask and test tube design...
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