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July 2008 
Some Sad News - Terence McKennas Notes and Library Destroyed
Posted on Mar 12th, 2007
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Bill
Bill
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This was written by Erik Davis...
"For those who knew Terence or enjoyed his library, the fire is a tragedy, and not simply because it consumed his private papers. Terence's library reflected the multidimensional facets of his own mind: mysticism and history, drugs and dreams, science fiction and systems theory, natural history and art. Terence was a head who fed his head with books more than the drugs he became known for. I will never forget the sheepish look he gave me six months or so before his death, as he forked over a fistful of twenties for a copy of Empson's Cult of the Peacock Angel, a rare book on the Yezidis that he bought from an esoteric book dealer I knew. It was a look that said, Please don't tell my girlfriend. "
http://www.telesterion.com/sad-new-terrence-mckennas-notes-destroyed-in-a-fire.htm
I'd have loved to have read that Peacock Angel book. I'd have loved to browse McKennas library. And the loss of his notes and working papers is a real shame.
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A loss indeed. Our libraries say so much about us. Thank gosh they have the index.
BTW - I like the new design. ☺
Thanks, J.K., I'm feeling pretty good about the new design for telesterion myself, altho there's still a bunch of work to be done on it. The old telesterion was the first large website I built, and it was just loaded with beginners mistakes. And the writing was done during an intense transformation period for me, so it never really said what I wanted to say.
Now all I have to do is write some new articles… groan… ;-}