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Tao Lin

Trip

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Part memoir, part history, part journalistic exposé, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literature, and alienation from one of the twenty-first century's most innovative novelists—The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new generation. A Vintage Original.
While isolating himself to work on his novel Taipei, Tao Lin discovered the prolific work of Terence McKenna—the leading advocate of psychotropic drugs since Timothy Leary. Tao became obsessed with McKenna, whose worldview (and particular theory of drug use) seemed to present an alternate way of being. In Trip, Tao's first ever book-length work of nonfiction, he explores parallels between McKenna's life and his own in a far-reaching search for answers to looming questions: Why do we make art? What is language for? And are there essential, universal truths out there, beyond our limited range of perception?
Trip takes readers on a trip through psychedelic culture,…
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  • полинаje citiralaпре 6 година
    “I’ll try to be around and about,” said Terence at a conference on the influence of psychedelics on artists held in Kona in part due to his failing health, seven months before he died. “But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there.”
  • полинаje citiralaпре 6 година
    In “The World and Its Double” (1993), when his children were fifteen and twelve, McKenna said:
    The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation.
  • полинаje citiralaпре 6 година
    “Weird is the compass heading,” he said.
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