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McKennaFan200
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Everybody Sing!
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Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision sofly creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain, still remains Within the sound of silence
-------------------- "It seemed to me culture is a shabby lie. Or at least this culture is a shabby lie. If you work like a dog, you get 260 channels of bad television and a German automobile. What kind of perfection is that?"-McKenna
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Ripple
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Great song!
-------------------- The bus came by and I got on that's when it all began!
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Hey McKennaFan, I was in the bookstore the other day (first picked up Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and then Nabokov's Lolita - it's about time I read it) and isn't it funny how shroomerites just pop in the head randomly? I was looking at fiction and saw all the McNames...and thought McKennaFan200 and walked over to the "Drinking, Screwing and Smoking" section of the store (best. wall. ever.) And I was gonna pick something McKenna up cause I've never read him..but had no idea what to pick! So quick! Recommend!
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Oh and I forgot to sing, so I'll go with...
boy man god shit boy man...wash uffitze drive me to firenze.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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McKennaFan200
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True Hallucinations is probably my fav. McKenna book. Get that if you can, Archaic Revival and Food of the Gods are books that I enjoyed as well.
-------------------- "It seemed to me culture is a shabby lie. Or at least this culture is a shabby lie. If you work like a dog, you get 260 channels of bad television and a German automobile. What kind of perfection is that?"-McKenna
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Danke schoen, darling danke schoen (trying to return the post to its singing roots..sorry to use Wayne Newton though.)
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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McKennaFan200
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Come on people, sing! Second verse now
In restless dreams I walked alone, narrow streets of cobblestone Neath the halo of a streetlamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light, split the night And touched the sound of silence
-------------------- "It seemed to me culture is a shabby lie. Or at least this culture is a shabby lie. If you work like a dog, you get 260 channels of bad television and a German automobile. What kind of perfection is that?"-McKenna
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McKennaFan200
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And in the naked light I saw, ten thousand people, maybe more People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never shared, and no one dared To stir the sound of silence
-------------------- "It seemed to me culture is a shabby lie. Or at least this culture is a shabby lie. If you work like a dog, you get 260 channels of bad television and a German automobile. What kind of perfection is that?"-McKenna
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McKennaFan200
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Fool, said I, you do not know, silence, like a cancer, grows Hear my words and I might teach you Take my arms then I might reach you But my words, like silent raindrops fell, and echoed in the wells of silence
-------------------- "It seemed to me culture is a shabby lie. Or at least this culture is a shabby lie. If you work like a dog, you get 260 channels of bad television and a German automobile. What kind of perfection is that?"-McKenna
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McKennaFan200
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And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they'd made And the sign flashed its warning in the words that it was forming And the sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls And tenement halls, and whispered in the sounds of silence
Thank you.
-------------------- "It seemed to me culture is a shabby lie. Or at least this culture is a shabby lie. If you work like a dog, you get 260 channels of bad television and a German automobile. What kind of perfection is that?"-McKenna
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Mitchnast
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