Concert of Ghosts
“It was as if some kind of thread attached him to a person he must have once known—but that knowledge was so incomplete as to be worthless. Yet there was no denying the emotion, which must have been lying in wait somewhere in his brain—that place of absences and silences.
“There’s some easy explanation for people vanishing,” he said. He managed to sound eminently sensible. “They move and they don’t always leave forwarding addresses. You’re looking back a long way. The Haight was a transient soci...ety. Kids changed their names. They dropped acid and went off into psychedelic realms, and they came back with a new name, a whole new personality.”
Tennant wasn’t exaggerating. After a couple of monumental acid trips, scenic routes through light shows and into the vortices of the cosmos, who would want to be called Clyde Bullington or George Kryzaminski or some such thing? People became Sunshine Halo and Plenty O’Trips, outlandish names that now seemed ludicrous. He had the mildewed scent in his nostrils of an extinct generation.MoreLess
“There’s some easy explanation for people vanishing,” he said. He managed to sound eminently sensible. “They move and they don’t always leave forwarding addresses. You’re looking back a long way. The Haight was a transient soci...ety. Kids changed their names. They dropped acid and went off into psychedelic realms, and they came back with a new name, a whole new personality.”
Tennant wasn’t exaggerating. After a couple of monumental acid trips, scenic routes through light shows and into the vortices of the cosmos, who would want to be called Clyde Bullington or George Kryzaminski or some such thing? People became Sunshine Halo and Plenty O’Trips, outlandish names that now seemed ludicrous. He had the mildewed scent in his nostrils of an extinct generation.MoreLess
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