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By Jack Joseph Smith
L. S. D.
It can cast you off from the spirit of man,
disembowel you into the whims of nature,
and lure you finally into an atmosphere
of no result;
but you'll never forget it.
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
GPT
This short page frames LSD as a force that strips a person away from ordinary human grounding and leaves behind an unforgettable but unresolved altered state.
The language is terse and absolute. Rather than describing expansion or revelation, it emphasizes disembowelment, whim, and 'no result,' which makes the memory of the experience feel powerful precisely because it refuses to become consoling or complete.
Claude
Fifteen lines of early-LSD instruction-writing — 'structural' is the marginal note and the voice is dispassionate enough that the trip reads as research rather than spectacle. Jack's clinical register here is closer to a field report than a poem.