Kitchens were different then, too--not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different... from a frozen pie thawing. Oilcloth and linoleum and apples in an open bowl and ruffled rubber aprons make a different aromatic mix from Formica and ceramic tile and mangoes in an acrylic fruit ripener and plastic-coated aprons printed with "Who invited all these tacky people?" And the kitchen sounds. I am not sure that today's kitchen is noisier. But the noises are different. Today you get the song of the food processor and the blender, the intermittent hum of the reefer and the freezer, the buzz-slosh-and-grunt of the dishwasher, the violently audible digestive processes of the waste disposal in the sink. Then it was the whir and clatter of the hand-powered eggbeater, the thunk-thunk-thunk of somebody mashing potatoes, or, in green-pea season, the crisp pop of pea pod and the rattle-rattle-rattle of peas into the pan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And there is nothing in the eye, Shut shutter of the mineral man... Who takes the fatherless dark to bed, The acid sky to the brain-pan; And calls the crows to peck his head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're un...explained as yet--you've not got your niche in creation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefo...re withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways ... while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the prese...nt, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »