domingo, janeiro 08, 2006

quem é o pai do lsd?


[Ora aí está uma pergunta porque muitos ansiavam com ardor, paixão, tesão, porque não. O LSD já foi considerada uma das drogas mais inspiradoras de artistas. O seu criador tem quase 100 anos.]

Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His 'Problem Child'
By CRAIG S. SMITH - BURG, Switzerland
ALBERT Hofmann, the father of LSD, walked slowly across the small corner office of his modernist home on a grassy Alpine hilltop here, hoping to show a visitor the vista that sweeps before him on clear days. But outside there was only a white blanket of fog hanging just beyond the crest of the hill. He picked up a photograph of the view on his desk instead, left there perhaps to convince visitors of what really lies beyond the windowpane.

Mr. Hofmann will turn 100 on Wednesday, a milestone to be marked by a symposium in nearby Basel on the chemical compound that he discovered and that famously unlocked the Blakean doors of perception, altering consciousnesses around the world. As the years accumulate behind him, Mr. Hofmann's conversation turns ever more insistently around one theme: man's oneness with nature and the dangers of an increasing inattention to that fact.

mais in NYTimes

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