E-Books and the Night of Brahma
The unprecedented apocalyptic monstrosity of the internet makes it
obvious that our universe, and everybody in it, is hurtling into the
final few screams of the Great Dissolution, as promised in the Vishnu Purana. The Night of Brahma will follow, when we all have to shut the fuck up, and even stop publishing e-books.
“Tranced Fixations” — Kerouac’s Breakthrough
On October 7, 1951, Jack went to Birdland to hear the alto saxophonist Lee
Konitz. The music sounded "so profoundly
interior" to Jack that he was sure very few people would understand it.
In fact, he compared Konitz's extended phrases to the sentences he was
writing lately. Jack saw that he and the musician were essentially doing the same thing.
Kerouac: A Psychonaut in Denial
Jack Kerouac's
experiments with mescaline, ayahuasca, and psilocybin mushrooms influenced his
1962 novel Big Sur, just as earlier
trials with peyote shaped his trademark
"spontaneous prose" style. So why does the public still think he scorned
psychedelics?