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PROGRAM NOTES:
In the spring of 1964, a narrow bookstore opens on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz. The Hip Pocket Book Store becomes a portal, a sanctuary where language itself awakens, where words hum with the electricity of consciousness expanding.
Through the eyes of Eliot, a young witness, we encounter Peter Demma: quiet mystic, seeker, and keeper of a dangerous secret, books are controlled substances. From Istanbul hashish to Big Sur’s phosphorescent shores, from Perry Lane salons to the Merry Pranksters’ wild arrival, this is the untold story of how a small bookstore became the pulse of a generation learning to read reality itself.
Ink and Thunder is a literary act of preservation. Part documentary, part visionary fiction, it traces the brief, luminous arc of the counterculture’s most intimate revolution: the transformation of consciousness through language, witnessed by those who lived it and written by those who remember.
Finished!
Full respect for this attempt to explain the inexplicable. An absorbing read. And now?
Here we are until the next high tide of consciousness surges up the shore …
Quick question: what happened to the guardian statues?
I believe the statues are now in San Francisco. I’ll ask Melyssa tomorrow.
For us elderly fans of the Moody Blues, you’ll know exactly which chapter this applies to .,,.
Moody Blues
After You Came
For some short time, for a while,
You and I were joined to Eternity
Then we split in two
Back to me and you
Like the rain, rising from the sea
[COMMENT by Lorenzo: I am a MAJOR Moody Blues fan … seen them live several times.\
Continues to be excellent.
Before listening to chapter on the visit by Merry Pranksters do yourself a favor and build a vibe by listening to this neo psychedelic song which includes clips from that time.
Evocative!
Chemistry Set band
Come Kiss Me, Vibrate And Smile
https://youtu.be/m5XY2ojbOrQ
Enjoying the story so far.
In all my years I never ran across even a mention of Zen Flesh Zen Bones. So that’s a win already.