This remarkable, sometimes incoherent transcript illustrates a phantasmagoria of fear, terror, grief, exaltation and finally breakdown. Its highlights have been compressed on this recording to make their own disquieting points.
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The time is 9.30 PM, one hour after the participants have eaten sugar cubes saturated with LSD. We hear Brian and his fellow travellers observing their gradual transformation.
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Brian's been amusing his friends by chewing on some plastic flashbulbs.
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Brian's mood is gradually changing. He orders all of his friends into another room and closes the door.
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He sits alone on the wooden floor, visible only by the dim light shining from the bathroom. He talks to himself.
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The time is now 1 AM. Brian is unable to snap his fingers and terminate the trip, which continues.
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He sobs, as his joy turns to fear.
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Brian's rocky journey ended twelve hours after it so innocently had begun. He was shattered by it.
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This young man never had a bummer in some thirty-three LSD trips. Every one of them was a delight. Everything under control. He needed only to snap his fingers and down he came, any time. But on Voyage 34 he finally met himself coming down an up-staircase, and the encounter was crushing.
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Voyage 34
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| Porcupine Tree |
