While reading Leary's text, "Adrift in the Age of Aquarius," I was taken by his writing. While it seems to be a very loosly organized and personal account of his experience I really enjoyed it. I am not always a fan of stream of conciousness writing but there is an appeal here to how Leary writes.
I enjoyed how he inserted parts of Allen Ginsberg's experiences (dialouge or texts?). As the reader who is very unfamiliar with an experience such as their trip, it is insightful to read about what Leary sees, hears, and observes in addition to what Ginsberg is writing and thinking.
As much as I enjoyed this text, I was not to thrilled with Leary's choice to add some of the quotes he did from outside sources. I can understand the connetions Leary made with the Lord of the Rings quotes but I'm just set aside by the whole association between what I know of LOTR (the movie, etc) and a text about Beatnik revolutionaries tripping. I also didn't get a great feeling at the end when Leary told his department head that "god would approve" of their behavior at the trip session. It is just not my belief that god would approve of that sort of thing so that explains my personal reaction.
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