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~ goddamy old-time mystery flick, Speaking openly in Grant Park fO a crowd of thousands while the fuzz are all over the place and the Secret Service goons detailed to tall him are snooping around all over Chicago trying topickup his trail, YIP has been called a blend of psychedelic and guerrilla revolution, In Abble’s case it is more like an esthetic art high that results naturally, like a man- tra-chant high from the ACT OF REVOLUTION itself, I felt it every day I was in Chicage last August. Abbie had it, Jerry Rubbin had it, Paul Krass- ner had it, Ed Sanders had it, everybody who pasticipated inthe . action had it. It was like the non- verbal high you have on an acid _trip, You don’t want to make Speeches or write descriptions of it, or make reports about it, I had a hell of a time trying to get myself to sit down at the type- writer and bat out the reportoria! stuff I was committed to sending back to the L.A, Free Press and the New York-based Cavalier magazine, It wasn’t till after the “Street theater, the live action, was over that I was able to do more than drop a few pages inthe ' matl or report on it by long dis- tance telephone, orally, Aldous Us eatalda ms that mud Huxley once Wha hs RLL Tt Gee when he ingested lysergic acidhe didn’t want to verbalize about it “during” and had trouble trying to write about it afterwards—and he was a wordcraft cat lf 1 ever saw one, Tim Leary said, when I put the question to him, “you're just too BUSY experiencing it to feel the least bit like describing It,” Abbie Ho’fman is STILL too busy experiencing it to say very much about the revolutionary high itself, but he has managed to put 200 pages on paper about the be- fore and after effects in REVO- LUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT, most descriptive word formula for the DURING effect of the re- volutionary high anybody ever has put on paper, Wasn't that the way Molly Bloom described her first fuck (I'm still too high just think- ing about Chicago in August to bother looking tt up in my copy of ULYSSES) in these words (I quote from memory) “I let him lerrup me just for the hell of it “The Old Left ‘says we work for @ CIA, Ex-Marines stomp on us as Pinkos, Newport police jallus as smut peddlers, Newark cops arrest us as riot inciters, (These four events were all triggered by passing out free copies of the same poem.) So what the hell are we doing, you ask? We are dyna- miting brain cells, Weare putting people through changes, The key to the puzzle lies io theater, We “Revolution for the hell of it? Why not? It’s all a bunch of phon words anyway, Once one has ex- perienced LSD, existential revo- lution, fought the intellectual game-playing of the individual in realizes that action Is the only reallty; notonly rea:tty but mora- lity as well, One learns reality is a subjective experience, It exists in my head, lam the Revo- lution, ME: Yes, I belteve in total free speech, INTERVIEWER: Well, surely you don’t believe in the right to cry! “fire” in a crowded theater? ME: FIRE! *Dov't be for or against. Riots -environmental and psychologi- cal—are Holy, so don’t screw around with explanations, Theater also has some advantages, It is involving for those people that are ready for it while at the same time dismissed as nonthreatening by those that could potentially wreck the stage, are theater in the streets: total and committed society, of one’s identity, one are y: