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by Inez Baranay Turn Left at Venus is a novel published in 2019 by Transit Lounge.What follows is a section of the chapter “were we the dead?” which describes an acid trip experienced by the main character, Ada, then aged around 30, in San Francisco in the mid 1960s [pages 171 to 176 in the published book].Although the author never tripped in San Francisco and not quite that early, this imaginative creation is based on real and positive experience of acid trips, the first being aged 18 in 1967. The band’s name meant that those who had died were grateful to those who let them go, who eased their passage from this life to the beyond. Down at the park the crowd grew, and the music kept on going, the musicians playing on a stage far away. Leyla had the tiny pieces of blotting paper. Just swallow it. She had taken a trip before, in LA or somewhere near there. The purifying desert. Ada and Leyla found themselves on a grassy slope, the band and the crowd at a distance below them. For a whi...
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