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Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
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[Tom Wolfe] [Joan Didion] [Hermann Hesse] [Paul Goodman] [Timothy Leary] [Undergrounds and Archives] [Robert Heinlein] [Eldridge Cleaver] [Alan Watts] [Gurney Norman] [Marshall McLuhan]
Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Baby
Steve Hammer Interview with Wolfe Wolfe says he never did acid, compares the Internet to Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties.
Goon King Brothers Dimensional Kreemo They say Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test pretty well tells it like it is, or was.
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Review of book.
Sorry, but your soul just died Tom Wolfe looks at the neuroscientific view of life.
Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Selves in the Valley-Joan Didion Brief bio, bibliography, links to some interviews and book reviews of her later works.
The Salon Interview Recent interview by Salon magazine.
We use the term tribe because it suggests the type of new society now emerging within the industrial nations. In America of course the word has associations with the American Indians, which we like. This new subculture is in fact more similar to that ancient and successful tribe, the European Gypsies--a group without nation or territory which maintains its own values, its language and religion, no matter what country it may be in.
Gary Snyder
Steppenwolf
Siddartha
Journey to the East
Magister Ludi, The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse Home Page Multilingual site from UC Santa Barbara; essays by and about Hesse; letters; plot outlines for some of his books; book availabilities and bibliography. Soon to have a Siddhartha glossary.
About the Glass Bead Game As Hesse never totally defined how the game was played, this site deals with development of rules for playing. Brief description of book, links to game variants. Cool site.
Hesse and Art in the Modern World Essay.
ACD 4927 Info on a modern concerto based on The Glass Bead Game.
Growing Up Absurd
About Paul Goodman Within this essay is a brief bio and bibliography, and a discussion of his ideas.
The Politics of Ecstasy
Timothy Leary Homepage Just because you're dead, doesn't mean you can't keep your homepage.
HighTimes:Ram Dass on Timothy Leary Ram Dass reminisces about Leary. Nice insight on Leary's modus vivendi.
Underground newspapers flourished in the Sixties -- alternatives to the mainstream press expressing their own spin on the zeitgeist. Here's a sample of some alternative press which still survives, as well as archived documents from some Sixties groups.
The San Francisco Oracle Archives You can buy a book of archives.
The Haight-Ashbury Free Press Psychedelia lives! Very nice site, great graphics. It's like déjà vu all over again!
The Great Speckled Bird Underground paper of Atlanta started in the 60s and still at it.
The San Francisco Bay Guardian
The Realist Paul Krassner continues, online.
Berkeley Free Speech Movement Archives Online text of leaflets; photos; Mario Savio links; first 17 chapters of Hal Draper's out of print Berkeley: The New Student Revolt.
Digger Archives These folks were the original hippies - before the media commercialized the concept. Great site. Lots of interesting reading. Even an audio of "The Diggers' Song". Check the "What's New" page to find stuff that isn't obvious from the front page.
UMI Research Collections: Underground Press Collections, 1963-1985You can purchase microfilm versions of lots of the Undergrounds from the era.
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert Heinlein, Dean of Science Fiction Writers Biographical sketch, collections of book reviews, excerpts and cover art, Heinlein essays, some audio files of Heinlein. Lotsa great links.
Robert Heinlein Reading Group AOL Heinlein Reading Group's home page. Original material by members here. Links.
The Book (On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are)
The Joyous Cosmology
Alan Watts Lectures and essays; bibliography; links.
Alan Watts Electronic University Home Page Biographical sketch, bibliography, some unpublished writings; audio/video and course availability.
Alan Watts Radio List of radio stations around the country carrying a weekly broadcast of live recordings of conversations with Watts during the 60s and 70s.
The Joyous Cosmology Read it online here.
The New Alchemy Essay
Psychedelics and Religious Experience, by Alan Watts
SF Oracle: The Houseboat SummitTranscript of meeting of Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, Alan Watts, and Allen Ginsberg
Have you read The Book? What book? You know, The BOOK. WHAT book???!!!
(Tee hee) The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts. (Giggle, giggle)
The Medium is the Massage
Understanding Media
The Gutenberg Galaxy
The Mechanical Bride
MCS Marshall McLuhan Lots of essays discussing McLuhan's ideas; links to multimedia sites.
The McLuhan Probes Visual essays in Adobe Acrobat format; link to McLuhan listserve.
McLuhan-The Mechanical Bride Review of his first book.
The Playboy Interview Marshall McLuhan
In case you didn't know that Marshall McLuhan is Wired's patron saint, you can get enlightened in these offbeat articles:
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