I highly recommend the book of the same title—a collection of her essays. I read it year or two ago, and it's excellent: gorgeous writing, and definitely a touchstone of the time. "I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not," from "On Keeping a Notebook," is something I think about a lot.

The essay itself is, of course, fantastic, but I find that, although she specifically tells us not to, it is impossible not to dwell on young children taking acid.

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bryanrasmussen 3 hours ago | parent [-]

>although she specifically tells us not to, it is impossible not to dwell on young children taking acid.

well any of those young kids taking acid would be coming up on retirement age now, so I guess the reasonable thing would be to try to find out how it all went.

	▲	trhway an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I'm sure their files have been paid necessary attention to deep inside some 3-letter agency. One hell of a coincidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haight_Ashbury_Free_Clinic "Louis Jolyon West—a LSD researcher involved in MKUltra—lived near the clinic, and was allowed by Smith to recruit clients for experiments.[7]"