Learn something new everyday.
British author Aldous Huxley, who spent the last 25 years of his life in Los Angeles, first took acid in 1955 and later had it injected while on his death bed.
From the death of Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who "discovered" LSD, and continued to sample the goods (until he decided he didn't need it, ...), while his pharmaceutical company tried to find a way to commercialize the finding ...
I always had an appalling lack of curiosity about the private lives of book writers and artists. It has left these giant gaps in the ... repertoire of understanding. Strangely, it's worked out o.k., providing a new way to revisit old material, grasped "as is".
