The Walls of Illusion ed. Peter Haining (Souvenir Press, March 26, 1998, 0-285-63414-3, £8.99, 221pp, tp, an)
Anthology of drug literature “revised, retitled, enlarged and reset” from the editor’s previous The Hashish Club: An Anthology of Drug Literature, Volume Two (Peter Owen, 1975). This edition adds four new pieces.
- 7 · The Psychedelic Generation: A Retrospective Introduction · Peter Haining · in (r)
- 13 · Prologue · Brian Aldiss · pr (r)
- 21 · The First Third · Neal Cassady · ex (r)
- 26 · Writing Dreams · Jack Kerouac · ex from Book of Dreams, City Lights Books, 1960
- 36 · I Am Dying, Meester? · William S. Burroughs · ss (r)
- 41 · The Great Being · Allen Ginsberg · ss (r)
- 48 · The American Express · Gregory Corso · ex 1961
- 56 · Where Is Vietnam? · Lawrence Ferlinghetti · ar (r)
- 66 · LSD Is Air · Timothy Leary · ar 1968
- 71 · The Joyous Cosmology · Alan Watts · ex 1962
- 80 · Good Ole Cagey Cage · William J. Craddock · ex from Be Not Content, Doubleday, 1970
- 88 · A Trip to Stonesville · Andrew Weil · ex from The Natural Mind, Houghton Mifflin, 1972
- 103 · The Wind at Beni Midar · Paul Bowles · ss (r)
- 117 · My King · Henri Michaux · ss (r)
translated from the French (“Mon Roi”, La Nuit Remue, 1935).
- 124 · The Blood of a Wig · Terry Southern · ss Evergreen Review #49, October 1967
- 142 · The Long Book · Alexander Trocchi · ss (r)
- 162 · Let the Mice In · Brion Gysin · ss Evergreen Review 1969
- 177 · Neville Club · John Lennon · ss In His Own Write by John Lennon, Jonathan Cape, 1964
- 182 · Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas · Hunter S. Thompson · ex Random House, July 7 1972
- 190 · Fable the Third · Smokestack El Ropo · ss Bedside Reader by Smokestack El Ropo, Straight Arrow, 1972
- 195 · “A Conscious Tool of the Universe” · Jann Wenner & Charles Reich · iv Rolling Stone [Ref. Jerry Garcia]
- 206 · A Long Time Ago People Decided to Live in America · Richard Brautigan · ss (r)
- 210 · Epilogue: A Visionary Prediction · Aldous Huxley · ar Playboy November 1963, as “Hallucinogens: A Philosopher’s Visionary Prediction”
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