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To: koan who wrote (330070)	3/2/2017 11:35:57 AM
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The plan to levitate the Pentagon was the perfect absurdly inspiring protest for the time How many hippies does it take to make magic happen? timeline.com Excerpt: ..'It was settled, then. They would perform an exorcism on the Pentagon, and at the same time levitate the building 300 feet in the air. To figure out how many hippies it would take to encircle 6.5 million square feet military office space, Hoffman and and a friend alternated holding hands, counting body lengths as they circled the building. ...“Everybody knows that a five-sided figure is evil,” explained Hoffman. “The way to exorcise it is with a circle.” Before long security guards rushed out of the Pentagon and arrested them for littering. (They had put some leaflets on the windshields of cars in the parking lot.) They were brought before a General Services Administrator, at which point the pair explained they would like to obtain a permit to levitate the Pentagon 300 feet. By forming a circle and chanting Aramaic exorcism rites, the monstrosity would “ rise into the air, turn orange, and vibrate until all evil emissions had fled. The war would end forthwith.” According to Time magazine, a compromise was reached in the end: a permit was granted, but it only allowed a maximum levitation of 10 feet. The littering charges were dropped...