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(Also, in the same episode, Nancy Kovak's turn as "Girl-Girl" has to be seen to be believed.)
Agreed, this is yet another role that's enough to make me think Ellison was stoned at the time.  That said, seeing Nancy in any kind of role is always a delight, hence the reason why she's been saved as the best for last in this episode spotlight.
Just a teeny FYI: Ellison has stated unequivocally that he has never taken drugs in his entire life, nor is he a drinker (he says the one time he tried alcohol it made him sick.) He's always been pretty strongly anti-drug, actually; the fact that he lost several friends to drugs in the 1960s might've contributed to this.
-- Jon
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I'm familiar with Ellison's aversion to alcohol but I could have sworn reading that he'd used his share of marijuana way back when, which is what I was thinking of. If he never touched any of that, including pot, then I'll certainly be glad to admit error.
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I'm familiar with Ellison's aversion to alcohol but I could have sworn reading that he'd used his share of marijuana way back when, which is what I was thinking of. If he never touched any of that, including pot, then I'll certainly be glad to admit error.
Nope, not Ellison -- he's pretty much anti-drug across the board.
Now, Philip K. Dick, on the other hand, was an afficionado of psychedelics, and issues of what constitutes "reality" and "sense of self" figure prominently in his many of his works.
-- Jon
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Just for my further edification, how does an anti-drug stance square with writing the forward for a book called "Pot Stories For The Soul?"
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