Barlow & Kesey

Um trecho do texto memorável do Barlow, para os anglo-parlantes, o situa perfeitamente: mesmo quem nunca ouviu falar nele ouviu falar nele, e a partir daqui vai ligar o nome à pessoa: "Ah, quer dizer que era ele?!":
But scarcely had he finished it ["Sometimes a Great Notion", a novel] when he took his Merry Pranksters, a fine platoon of loons - out on the most culturally influential road trip since Kerouac's. (The events of the next two years are chronicled in Tom Wolf's jabbering account, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.") Along the way, they commandeered venues and invited anyone who felt like it to come and drink their fill from bathtubs full of LSD-laced Kool-Aid. In the process, they were hugely responsible for turning the 60's into the 60's.
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