The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

Author:Tom Wolfe [Wolfe, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3, pdf
Tags: Psychopathology, Psychology, Drug addiction, Social Science, Science, Drug abuse, Hippies, General, United States, Applied Sciences, Drug addiction - United States, Addiction, Hippies - United States, Popular Culture, History
ISBN: 9780312427597
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2008-08-18T22:00:00+00:00

ON THE WAY BACK THEY PUT THE BEATLES TAPE ON AGAIN, from Help! but it was no use. They were all too dispirited. Except for Mountain Girl and Zonker. Mountain Girl said she'd wanted to stay and see the rest of the show.

Well—what the hell. Zonker was smiling about the Beatles coming. Well—that was what he had told the whole world anyway. And where the hell else would they go from there? In fact, the current fantasy—the imminent arrival of the Beatles—had hardly crossed anybody's mind for the last hour, not even Kesey's. Get the hell out of there, that was the main thing. Where were the Beatles? Who the hell knew. The little vinyl dolls had probably cheesed and minced off into a time warp. ... In any case, it wasn't very hulking likely they were coming to La Honda.

Finally the bus comes grinding around the last curve round the mountain, up to Kesey's place, and the bus noses across the bridge and the headlights hit the yard—

and the sight is gruesome and comical at the same time. It is like a super version of the nightmare of the man who just wants to go home and go to bed. The Pranksters have guests. In fact, they have three or four hundred guests. They are all jammed into the big yard between the main house and the backhouse, with big bitter lollipop eyes.

It's like every head, freak, boho, and weirdo in the West has assembled in one spot, the first freakout, with a couple of hundred teeny freaks thrown in for good measure.

Half of them are hunkered down with their big lollipop eyes turned up like somebody spit them up against the house and they slid down to the ground like slugs. Naturally they all came for the big beano with the Beatles. The party. Zonker did his work in the highest Prankster tradition. The sign still hangs on the gate: THE MERRY PRANKSTERS WELCOME THE BEATLES

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