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Alpert and I enjoyed what he called "upleveling" each other with
honesty. On one occasion, we were at a party. I was particularly manic and
he pointed it out, choosing an eggbeater as his analogy. I appreciated his
reflection and calmed down.

On stage at the Village Theater, Alpert was sitting in the lotus
position on a cushion, talking about his mother dying and how there
seemed to be a conspiracy on the part of relatives and hospital personnel
alike to deny her the realization of that possibility. He also talked about
some fellow in a mental institution who thought he was Jesus Christ.
Conversely, I teased him about discussing his mother openly but
concealing the fact that the man who thought he was Christ was his
brother--death obviously carrying more respectability than craziness. At
his next performance, Alpert identified the man as his brother.

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The essential difference between Tim Leary and G. Gordon Liddy was
that Leary wanted people to use LSD as a vehicle for expanding
consciousness, whereas Liddy wanted to put LSD on the steering wheel of
columnist Jack Anderson' s car, thereby making a political assassination
look like an automobile accident. But who could have predicted that,

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