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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (320)1/24/2005 5:42:07 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 691
 
"...but what's the link between OFOTCN and Luke?"

Under the premise of ‘just passing time’ the good natured main character acts out a vengeance on an authority with no particular name. You get the sense that the main character is standing fearlessly and humbly for all the hard timers, against all odds, against the system holding all the cards, and which itself has defined them. And at the point where redemption seems eminent, the punitive authority acts out its vengeance. In what on the surface appears to be the destruction of the protagonist, the down trodden are delivered from the oppression of the ‘man’ while remaining enshackled … and the legend is born, the phoenix rises.

I'm surprised that wasn't obvious for everyone.



To: Wharf Rat who wrote (320)5/9/2005 2:45:15 PM
From: American Spirit  Respond to of 691
 
I don't know those initials. Yes Kesey was acid-tested at the Menlo Park VA closes to where he also worked in the Cuckoo's Nest, 1958-1961 I think. The CIA was testing thousands of Americans with LSD and other mind-bending drugs hoping to find the perfect psychochemical weapon. The CIA therefore started the psychedelic revolution. At least they supplied most of the drugs.