Mark Sutton
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695 appearances
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard Jul 2020
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Well, that was a little bit of John Coltrane, the great jazz master.
And the reason we do that is because, for the most part, our book is set in the early 60s.
It's about the group of individuals who got involved with Timothy Leary and his LSD experiments.
And they were, for the most part, a group of Harvard undergraduates and academics and, you know, PhD candidates.
who initially got into LSD because it was experimentation, because they thought they were truly going to be making these great breakthroughs in psychological research.
And they always talked about it in terms of research.
But jazz features prominently in the book as a soundtrack to their LSD experiments.
As time goes on in the book,
the music soundtrack sort of changes to what we might think of as more LSD-associated music of the 1960s.
But one of the nice things about this book is it's set in its sort of earlier period, before LSD was known to America and the world for what it is known today.
It's these almost naive experimenters who like jazz and are otherwise quite buttoned up and traditional taking acid.
Yes, I actually really liked that attention to historical detail in there.
It was something I noticed as well.
It was almost a charming naivety about the words people use.
So, as you say, trip is not in their vocabulary.
Acid is not in their vocabulary.
At one point, despite having been a regular user of LSD for a long time, one of the characters is offered what they call a marijuana cigarette and they're shocked that someone would be using drugs at their house, which I think is a nice sort of statement about...
at least the initial genuine aims of these LSD experiments that they didn't think they were drug users and counterculture people.
They thought they were doing true research.
There's another point later in the book where a group of hippies arrive from LA.
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