GET OUT OF MY LlBRARY YOU DAMN DIRTY HIPPIES!!!

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  1. Jack_Straw2208

    Jack_Straw2208 Senior Member

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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.

    stoled from http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/bookarts/1998/09/msg00030.html

    mmm lung disease
     
  2. psplaya

    psplaya Member

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    if this is true, its awesome... lol
     
  3. areyoutrippin420

    areyoutrippin420 Member

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    Maybe that's why we got the bible. Its the oldest book I know. hmmm
     
  4. xLEFTOVERCRACKx

    xLEFTOVERCRACKx Member

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    hmmmmmmmm
    no wonder how alice got into wonderland.
     

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