April 30, 2008

• Happy Walpurgisnacht, Julie:

  Lucy in the Sky
  with Diamonds
  and Sacred Heart

  From today's online New York Times:

  PARIS -- Albert Hofmann, the mystical Swiss chemist who gave the world
  LSD, the most powerful psychotropic substance known, died Tuesday at
  his hilltop home near Basel, Switzerland. He was 102.

  Related material:

  

  and
  a film by Julie Taymor,
  Across the Universe:

  
  
  Detail of the
  Strawberry Fields Forever
  Sacred Heart:

  

  
  A song:

  

  Julie Taymor

  "Shinin' like a diamond,
  she had tombstones
  in her eyes."

  -- Album "The Dark,"
  by Guy Clark

  For related tombstones,
  see May 16-19, 2006,
  and April 19, 2008.

   Further background:
  Art Wars for
  Red October.

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