Some of it was extremely stuffy, but some of it was really exciting. Like, exciting-adjacent; it's not big on action, more on ideas. I thought this paSome of it was extremely stuffy, but some of it was really exciting. Like, exciting-adjacent; it's not big on action, more on ideas. I thought this part was cute: "There was everything here that he needed to maintain him for the rest of his life, but what he wanted most was an electronic piano and certain Bach transcriptions." (pg. 202) Will I try to read more Arthur C. Clarke novels? I mean... maybe!...more
It's been seven years since I took a psychedelic drug nearly to the day. My interest in them has not abated. I'm very hopeful that I'll see a world inIt's been seven years since I took a psychedelic drug nearly to the day. My interest in them has not abated. I'm very hopeful that I'll see a world in which the profound good this type of drug can do is readily talked about and championed by all the medical doctors and politicians and everyday people. They didn't change my world, or, well, not in a turn-on-a-dime, trumpets of angels blaring kind of way, but they've changed others just like that, and I find it fascinating. A lot will have to change about my life to allow myself to be open to trying the 'medicine' again, but I'm never fully closing the door....more