rip – Albert Hofmann
Posted by justin on 29 Apr 2008 at 08:43 pm | Tagged as: acquisitions, r.i.p.
(Photo : Stefan Pangritz)
This morning I woke up around 8:30 am, slightly restless and uneasy. I sat on my bed for about an hour and read a chapter out of Andrew Weil’s “From Chocolate to Morphine,” which just happened to have fallen out of my bookshelf over the King William Fair. It happened to be that the page I turned to was the one detailing how Albert Hofmann had first discovered LSD-25 in 1938. I read the whole story on Albert and continued throughout my day. At several points today small snippets of what I read came back to “bite,” me so to speak within my normal everyday conversations. This was driven even further home by a headline I saw that popped up onto my home page just now signing in to check my email. “LSD Creator Albert Hofmann dies at 102,” it said. The biggest shiver ran down my spine. I don’t normally catch up on drug history in the morning, and I certainly don’t expect my catching up to echo current events. heres a link to an obituary in the UK Telegraph about the man and his accomplishments and beliefs. (more info – NYTimes)
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he will be missed…
Thanks for the memories…
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he is mist.
Amy Freeman Lee did a series of paintings titled, Becoming Sensitive. Maybe you are…
I hate these whiny, middle-class kids co-opting people’s real suffering. Videos ripping off news photography of people in the Third World! I mean, we live like czars. …
How come this post makes me think of Vincent Price in The Tingler??? Jiminy creepers. nice photo pick of the day though.
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