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Thu Sep 10 12:50:13 PDT 1998
This was too much. I just had to pass it on.
:D
Kris
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Mayhaps this will be found of interest to some.
Morgaine
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Thought this might intrigue you.
Blessings,
Ruadh
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From: Chuck Cantrell <cantrell at xsis.xerox.com>
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Subject: [Raven-l] Getting Stoned From Old Books???
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And all this time I thought I enjoyed pawing through old books and such
because it was fun and interesting.....hhmmmmm.
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> "Book Fungus Can Get You High"
> By Ellen Warren / Chicago Tribune
>
> CHICAGO-Getting high on great literature is taking on a whole new
meaning.
>
> It turns out that, if you spend enough time around old books and
decaying manuscripts in dank archives, you can start to hallucinate.
Really.
> We're not talking psychedelia, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" stuff,
here.
>
> But maybe only a step or two away from that.
>
> Experts on the various fungi that feed on the pages and on the covers
of > books are increasingly convinced that you can get high - or at least a
> little wacky-by sniffing old books. Fungus on books, they say, is a
likely source of hallucinogenic spores.
>
> The story of The Strangeness in the Stacks first started making its way
> through the usually staid antiquarian books community late last year
with > the publication of a paper in the British medical journal, The
Lancet.
> There, Dr. R.J. Hay wrote of the possibility that "fungal
hallucinogens" in old books could lead to "enhancement of enlightenment."
>
> "The source of inspiration for many great literary figures may have
been > nothing more than a quick sniff of the bouquet of mouldy books,"
wrote
Hay, one of England's leading mycologists (fungus experts) and dean of
> dermatology at Guy's Hospital in London.
>
> Well, said an American expert on such matters, it may not be that easy.
> "I agree with his premise - but not his dose. It would take more than a
> brief sniff," aid Monona Rossol, an authority on the health effects of
> materials used in the arts world.
>
> For all the parents out there, these revelations would seem ideal for
> persuading youngsters to spend some quality time in the archives.
> But attention kids: You can't get high walking through the rare books
> section of the library.
>
> Rossol said it would take a fairly concentrated exposure over a
> considerable period of time for someone to breathe in enough of the
spores of hallucinogenic fungus to seriously affect behavior. There are no
studies to tell how much or how long before strange behavior takes hold.
> Still, this much seems apparent - if you want to find mold, the only
place that may rival a refrigerator is a library.
>
> Just last week the Las Cruces, N.M., Public Library was closed
> indefinitely, prompted by health concerns after a fungus outbreak in
the > reference section. Library director Carol Brey said the fungus
promptly
> spread to old history books and onward to the literature section.
> The town's Mold Eradication Team, she said, shuttered the library as a
> precaution. "We didn't want to take any chances," she said. A mold
removal company will address the problem, which is believed to have
originated in the air conditioning system.
>
> Psychedelic mushrooms, the classic hallucinogenic fungus, derive their
> mind-altering properties from the psilocybin and psilocin they produce
> naturally.
>
> One historic example of this phenomenon, scientists now believe, is the
> madness that prevailed in the late 1600s in Salem, Mass., where ergot,
a > hallucinogenic fungus, infected the rye crops that went into rye bread.
>
> Ergot contains lysergic acid, a key compound of the hallucinogenic
drug > LSD. This tiny fungus and its wild effects on the rye-bread-eating
women > may have led to the Salem witch trials.
>
> Rossol, a New York chemist and consultant to Chicago's Field Museum of
> Natural History who publishes the newsletter Acts Facts, the journal of
> Arts, Crafts and Theater Safety, said that there have not been
scientific > studies on the hallucinogenic effects of old books.
>
> But, relying on accounts from newsletter readers who report their own
> strange symptoms - ranging from dizziness to violent nausea - she says
> there is no doubt that moldy old volumes harbor hallucinogens.
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...Chuck
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