"Friends in Dhamma, be satisfied with your own head. Do not put any false heads above your own. Then minute after minute, watch your steps closely. Always keep your head cold and your feet warm. These are my last words to you."
-- NYOGEN SENZAKI
"America has had Zen students in the past, has them in the present, and will have many of them in the future. They mingle easily with so-called worldlings. They play with children; respect kings and beggars, and handle gold and silver as pebbles and stones.'
-- NYOGEN SENZAKI
Pynchon's recondite theme of GR is that the whole psych tampering of Slothrop during his childhood represents the children who the CIA gave LSD to in the early-mid 1960's and what was and will be their (and the USA's) future in our post-modern dystopia.
That's really it folks...
HST's drug buddy Oscar Zeta Acosta [Hunter's "Samoan" attorney in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]...
Acosta was a Chicano legend in underground L.A. before his [eventually fatal] encounter with HST and the gang...
Today in 1966, The Beatles shocked the world when they released their most innovative and experimental record yet, βRevolverβ.
Upon release, it was described by critics as βbrilliantβ & is noted for changing the direction of pop music.
Whatβs your favorite song from the album?