{"id":81832,"date":"2015-01-20T14:03:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T19:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=81832"},"modified":"2015-01-22T13:17:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T18:17:06","slug":"vegetable-snake-undersea-beings-a-belated-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/20\/vegetable-snake-undersea-beings-a-belated-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetable-snake Undersea Beings: A Belated Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_81836\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/praga_9_ginsberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81836\" class=\"wp-image-81836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/praga_9_ginsberg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/praga_9_ginsberg.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/praga_9_ginsberg-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ginsberg in May 1965. Photo: Engramma.it<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When <em>The Paris Review <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/4389\/the-art-of-poetry-no-8-allen-ginsberg\">interviewed Allen Ginsberg for our Spring 1966 issue<\/a>, he expressed a sense of conflict about hallucinogens. He treasured their effects on consciousness\u2014\u201cyou get some states of consciousness that subjectively seem to be cosmic-ecstatic, or cosmic-demonic\u201d\u2014but his body was having trouble tolerating them. \u201cI can\u2019t stand them anymore,\u201d he said, \u201cbecause something happened to me with them \u2026 After about thirty times, thirty-five times, I began getting monster vibrations again. So I couldn\u2019t go any further. I may later on again, if I feel more reassurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Clark conducted that interview in June 1965; the issue was on newsstands the following spring. A year later, though, in June 1966, Ginsberg sent <em>The Paris Review <\/em>the following letter, which recently resurfaced in our archives: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ginsberg-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ginsberg-1.jpeg\" alt=\"ginsberg 1\" width=\"600\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ginsberg-1.jpeg 2550w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ginsberg-1-229x300.jpeg 229w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ginsberg-1-783x1024.jpeg 783w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>June 2, 1966<\/p>\n<p>To readers of Paris Review:<\/p>\n<p>Re LSD, Psylocibin [<em>sic<\/em>], etc., Paris Review #37 p. 46: \u201cSo I couldn\u2019t go any further. I may later on occasion, if I feel more reassurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Between occasion of interview with Thomas Clark June \u201965 and publication May \u201966 more reassurance came. I tried small doses of LSD twice in secluded tree and ocean cliff haven at Big Sur. No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake\u2019s illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet\u2019s oceanic horizon. No harm. President Johnson that day went into the Valley of Shadow operating room because of his gall bladder &amp; Berkley\u2019s Vietnam Day Committee was preparing anxious manifestoes for our march toward Oakland police and Hell\u2019s Angels. Realizing that more vile words from me would send out physical vibrations into the atmosphere that might curse poor Johnson\u2019s flesh and further unbalance his soul, I knelt on the sand surrounded by masses of green bulb-headed Kelp vegetable-snake undersea beings washed up by last night\u2019s tempest, and prayed for the President\u2019s tranquil health. Since there has been so much legislative mis-comprehension of the LSD boon I regret that my unedited ambivalence in Thomas Clark\u2019s tape transcript interview was published wanting this footnote.<\/p>\n<p>Your obedient servant<\/p>\n<p>[signed]<\/p>\n<p>Allen Ginsberg, aetat 40<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Paris Review<\/em> regrets the error. May the record hereafter reflect Allen Ginsberg\u2019s unequivocal endorsement of lysergic acid diethylamide.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dan Piepenbring is the web editor of <\/em>The Paris Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When The Paris Review interviewed Allen Ginsberg for our Spring 1966 issue, he expressed a sense of conflict about hallucinogens. 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