There was a picture of Lenny looking forlornly through jailbars. The caption said so much with just one letter change. “Americans love non-conformity and often reward it with the metal of honor.”   A book that opened my mind :

How To Talk Dirty 

and 

Influence People 

by Lenny Bruce. 

Paul Krassner editor.

Grok this in fullness! Share water!

Stranger in a Strange Land. 

Robert Heinlein’s religious metaphor.

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge,

A Separate Reality,  Tales of Power, Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan

by Carlos Castaneda

 

People’s Chronology 

  Be Here Now by Ram Dass

Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman

 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Zap Comix (Number 0) 

  The Tibetan Book of the Dead (The Great Book of Natural Liberation Through Understanding in the Between) by The Dalai Lama

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

 Hell’s Angels by Hunter S. Thompson

The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut

 Joy of Sex : A Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking by Crown

Whole Earth Catalog by Peter Warshall, Stewart Brand (editors

Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

The Bhagavad Gita

I.Ching

I seem To Be a Verb by Buckminster Fuller

 Howl by Alan Ginsberg

 Meetings With Remarkable Men by G. I. Gurdjieff

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Brave New World , The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Man and His Symbols, Synchronicity by Carl Jung

How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive

Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus by Henry Miller

1984, Animal Farm by George Orwell