Hippie

by Paulo Coelho

in September 1970, everyone either had paranormal capabilities or was in the process of developing them.

As Hal Sparks put it, the 70s was the 'Great Witching of America'

they were convinced that there truly did exist something between their eyes, called a pineal gland, though its usefulness had not yet been discovered by scientists.

In humans, it's buried in the center of the brain. It secretes melatonin. That's it. It can calcify and interfere with sleep as a person ages. In tuataras, since it's closer to the skin, it senses light and shadow. And secretes melatonin.

But whenever the word POLICE entered his line of sight, even if it were just a customs official, his terror returned.

This is true for so many people out there.

The brain blocks out everything, there’s neither terror nor fear, just a strange submission to what’s about to occur.

They went tharn.

we don’t choose the things that happen to us, but we can choose how we react to them.

Not a single black person, only whites there below, on the sidewalk that ran along the shore.

Fuck Apartheid!!! I saw it end on MTV.

In reality, they weren’t headed for Asia but for the former Constantinople.

Istanbul, not Constantinople, now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople, so if you have a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul...

rice rolled up in tiny cigars made from grape leaves,

Dolmades

Until its synthesizer—or inventor, as we’d say—decided, years later, to try a bit of the product that was already making millions for pharmaceutical companies around the world.

Albert Hofmann