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One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness — the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.
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The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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In the air the Pentagon would then, went the presumption, turn orange and vibrate until all evil emissions had fled this levitation. At that point the war in Vietnam would end.
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What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer — war, and the preparations for new war.
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I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
January 31, 1923
Died:
November 10, 2007
(aged 84)
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