{"id":2027,"date":"2008-04-30T07:15:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T11:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2008-04-30T07:15:23","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T11:15:23","slug":"final-tale-of-hofmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/final-tale-of-hofmann","title":{"rendered":"Final Tale of Hofmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a student at Hampshire College, the annual Halloween tradition was known as &#8220;Trip or Treat.&#8221; Being a total square, I never partook. For a variety of reasons, I wish I&#8217;d tried acid, but it&#8217;s a bit late in life for that.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Albert Hofmann, the man who first synthesized LSD, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2008\/04\/lsd-inventor-al.html\" target=\"_blank\">has died at the age of 102<\/a>. But, as Acid Archie sez, &#8220;ACID <strong>NEVER<\/strong> DIE!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zenith_%28comics%29\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/archieacid.jpg?resize=485%2C382\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(written by Grant Morrison, drawn by Steve Yeowell; not sure who holds the copyright, which is 1990)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a student at Hampshire College, the annual Halloween tradition was known as &#8220;Trip or Treat.&#8221; Being a total square, I never partook. For a variety of reasons, I wish I&#8217;d tried acid, but it&#8217;s a bit late in life for that. Anyway, Albert Hofmann, the man who first synthesized LSD, has died &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/final-tale-of-hofmann\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Final Tale of Hofmann&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-pharmaceuticals","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-wH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11295,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-261-robert-weil","url_meta":{"origin":2027,"position":0},"title":"Episode 261 &#8211; Robert Weil","author":"Gil","date":"March 20, 2018","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 261: Robert Weil \"Translation editing is all about the idiom.\" Liveright Publishing editor-in-chief Robert Weil joins the show on the eve of this year's Festival Neue Literatur to talk about editing translations, why great translators are heroes (and ought to get credited on book covers), and his\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9309.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9309.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9309.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9309.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9309.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9466,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-156-ross-benjamin","url_meta":{"origin":2027,"position":1},"title":"Episode 156 &#8211; Ross Benjamin","author":"Gil","date":"February 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show #156: Ross Benjamin \"As a translator, your initial feeling is, 'I want to inhabit this text.' 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