Excerpt from Chapter 13: Meeting the Wizard :
..."What does woman want?" Tim asked with a soft chuckle. "It's a question Freud asked, the best question he ever asked, I think, though he wasn't able to answer it. I see it as a great title for a book I'll write someday. Perhaps you can write it with me?"
"First, I'll get what I want, then I'll write about it," I replied. I lit a Gitane and placed the pack on the table. Timothy, who had been smoking Camels, took a Gitane out and lit it as well.
"Fair enough. I know something about how to do that. The real trick is not giving away too much in the process. You know . . . settling for a bad tradeoff? That's where love comes in, the love the alchemists called the universal solvent. It's the highest biochemical state. All the other chemicals, the sacramental drugs especially, the psychedelics and neurotransmittors, are just ways of accessing it. I can tell you're ready for that ultimate state. There's a way people look when they're ready."
I felt awkward using the word "love" with Tommy present, but I wanted to acknowledge what Timothy was saying. "Love is what it's about, all right," I said weakly, "it must be powerful because it seems to be more forbidden than drugs."...
"First, I'll get what I want, then I'll write about it," I replied. I lit a Gitane and placed the pack on the table. Timothy, who had been smoking Camels, took a Gitane out and lit it as well.
"Fair enough. I know something about how to do that. The real trick is not giving away too much in the process. You know . . . settling for a bad tradeoff? That's where love comes in, the love the alchemists called the universal solvent. It's the highest biochemical state. All the other chemicals, the sacramental drugs especially, the psychedelics and neurotransmittors, are just ways of accessing it. I can tell you're ready for that ultimate state. There's a way people look when they're ready."
I felt awkward using the word "love" with Tommy present, but I wanted to acknowledge what Timothy was saying. "Love is what it's about, all right," I said weakly, "it must be powerful because it seems to be more forbidden than drugs."...
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