Re: Mind-Altering Drugs
At 3:48 PM 7/10/96, Asgaard wrote:
Thinking of T. Leary in memoriam I looked around for the present psychedelic scene. Alta Vista sent me to where 'everything' seems to connect ... Santa Cruz, Ca.
Guess where I live? Leary came to a Cypherpunks party, a little over a year ago, at the home of Doug Barnes. He was pretty frail-looking. I talked a bit to him, mostly about "Gravity's Rainbow." (Whose author lived anonymously near Santa Cruz, just over a ridge from me, for almost 10 years.) --Tim Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
At 2:24 PM -0400 7/10/96, Timothy C. May wrote:
Leary came to a Cypherpunks party, a little over a year ago, at the home of Doug Barnes. He was pretty frail-looking.
My favorite Leary quote: "Adulthood is terminal." Mildly appropriate, given his death from prostate cancer(?). When I was in college at Mizzou, he came to speak. I went up to him for an autograph, and the only thing I could find for him to sign was my "Introduction to Aristotle" book. We had a laugh about that. I'd read about Gerry O'Neill before I saw Leary, but him showing slides of the inside of Bernal colonies got the, er, ball, rolling as far as my fascination with space development stuff is concerned. Glad to know he was still as focused on the crackpot fringe :-) in his later years as he was in midlife. Long may you wave, Dr. Leary... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "'Bart Bucks' are not legal tender." -- Punishment, 100 times on a chalkboard, for Bart Simpson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/
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