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Flashback(s)

4/28/2013

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I've written elsewhere that I had a short, unhappy period many years ago when I taught at a private women's college in Ohio.  I've been thinking for the past few days about one particular evening while I was there.  Some fellow who was, I think, an educational theorist of some renown was visiting the campus.  I was somehow invited(?) to stop by a faculty member's home where the fellow was holding forth.  What I recall was that he was, at the time, anyway, taken with learning to play the cello.  To that end, he carried with him not a cello, but a bow, and he was constantly "playing" an invisible instrument.  I found this whole thing quite odd.  But then, I have never been a musician.

I remember that there were, I think, three young women (students) who were in attendance and who, when it came time to leave, offered to walk me home to the house where I was temporarily staying while waiting for remodeling of what was to be my house on the farm portion of the campus.  It was cold--winter in Ohio--and one of the young women, as was the custom in those days and in that place, fired up a joint and began to pass it among the four of us.  There may have been other things--I honestly do not recall.  Arriving at my porch, they bid me goodnight and went away.  I remember hearing much laughter as they walked away.

What happened next lasted, I'd say, six or eight hours.  Alone in my room I will not try and describe the "trip" I was taking, but it resembled very much the acid trips I'd read and heard about from my days in San Francisco.  It was frightening.  I feel confident I was somehow given LSD.

As I said, it lasted six or so hours.  But it came back to me in what I can only call horrifying ways for many months afterwards.  For years, in fact.  I'm still unnerved by the recollection.

I wonder if they knew how close to psychosis they brought me?
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Susan
5/29/2013 09:43:02 am

Oh Dear, I was in that bunch!

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