So he was interested in what do people do afterward, what kind of earthly existence do they build on the basis of their visions? – or, to what extent is there some reconciliation of visionary perception and ordinary mind every-day dish-washing attitudes? So he said he was interested in what people did with visions after. It’s just like you tell your dreams over and over again, which would be interesting if you were able to work with it or anything, but just to say, “Well yesterday I saw this fantastic astrological combination, which indicated that my own shoe-style is absolutely right, because it points towards the east”, or something. after a while gets boring, after everybody’s got a vision, and everybody drops acid a hundred times, visions change every day, so what?, finally. In other words, descriptions of terrific experiences and visionary imagery is.
And I remember him saying, “I’m not so much interested on what visions people have while on mescaline, I’m interested in what they do with them after, what they do the next day with them”. The reason he was interested in meeting us – and vice-versa was that he had done a lot of experiments with mescaline and we were probably the first of the American poets that had any literary background, who approached him to discuss it sort of sanely, without excessive enthusiasm, but just trying to check out what was going on. And he came in one day and knocked as I had my foot in the sink, washing my feet, which he thought was very funny behavior on the part of American poets, probably typical (American) behavior We gave him a copy of Corso’s Gasoline, and he looked at it and then kept repeating, like a mantra, “mad children of soda-caps, mad children of soda-caps”. We wanted to meet him and we lived around the block. I’d left a note saying we were American poets. He lived on Rue Segur near the Seine, on the Left Bank. He lived around the block in Paris from Rue Git de Coeur , where we lived. And, let’s see, it was 1965 probably, and we’d known Michaux since (19)58). Student: I wanted to ask you about Henri MichauxĪG: Henri Michaux, Ed Dorn and James Tate! – Well, once I was standing on a street corner in Paris, talking with Henri Michaux and Gregory Corso.
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