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“I don’t consider niggers in the same light as I would a white man,”
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
(Sasha Shulgin, who died in 2014, was a brilliant chemist who held a DEA license allowing him to synthesize novel psychedelic compounds, which he did in prodigious numbers. He also was the first to synthesize MDMA since it had been patented by Merck in 1912 and forgotten. Recognizing its psychoactive properties, he introduced the so-called
... See moreMichael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

The practical objection to animal food in my case was its uncleanness; and besides, when I had caught and cleaned and cooked and eaten my fish, they seemed not to have fed me essentially. It was insignificant and unnecessary, and cost more than it came
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)


it is totally reasonable—righteous, even—to eat what you kill, whatever it may be. “I’ve tried tiger,” said Trush. “My whole family tried it. It’s quite unusual—slightly sweet, but I don’t care for it anymore—not since I saw a tiger eat a rotten cow in 2000. He ate the meat with worms and everything.”
John Vaillant • The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Discovery of psychoactive plant & mushroom alkaloids in ancient fungal cicada pathogens – Cicada Mania
Dan Mozgaicicadamania.comThe Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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