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Abbie Hoffman — Part 7
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“anybody with bad breath, but I like see a whole lot of stuff
being sold about halitosis is worse than cancer. So I was,
my job was to go around and give doctors five hundred dollars
to write a report about how some of this drugs were, see, and
then we'd take that report and send it back to the home office,
xerox it, put it in some fancy academic journal, and then take
the journal around and show it to all the other doctors, tell
them how good i+ was, see? Then they'd tell the patient to go
out and get it. My head was like really spinning, wow. And
I said, I started a question, like, what's the meaning of life:
what am I doing here; does this stuff work. So who do I ask.
I asked the ministers. I asked the priests - hey, is this any
good? What's the meaning of life? They said go see Dalai Lama.
Well, he was too far, so I asked my boss, a@ regional sales manager.
I said, heyboss, I'm gonna ask you something. This Ss... any good?
He said, it won't kill you. It won't kill you. It was killing
me even though I had it down to a science. I worked four
hours a day for fifteen thousand dollars. Nice home in the
suburbs. Four hours selling my soul. Westwood Pharmaceutical.
I said stick it. Let ‘em have acne. It was fun anyway. Ydu
get really stoned doing that in the mirror, huh? The best way
is to have somebody else do it for ya. Then it's like interactive.
Let ‘em have their acne, I said, and I headed for the lower east
side. Twenty-two dollars a month rent. Nobody spoke English in
the whole building. It was a Spanish building. Garbage all
Over the place. Puerto Rican families come out at night and
pick through the garbage downstairs to get something to eat.
Eat. How much are they paying these farmers out herenow to
grow wheat? They oughta send some down. We'll come u. and .
¥ get it. Wheat, give it away free. That ain't charity - we
ain't up to charity. Charity's a bum trip. That's like Pat
Nixon, you know, going up to St. Patrick's Cathedral saying,
here's a bag of sugar. Send it to Biafra. Isn't that cute?
Weli. Eleven truckloads of food; we drove it into Newark, right
during the riots. And we give it to people. It's in cans, and
we say you don't wanna eat it, throw it. No strings attached.
Do anything they want with it. .
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