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Mondo 2000 vs. Wired

Mondo 2000 vs. Wired: "We were surprised by the positive response to the early issues of Wired. While their design veered even further than Mondo's toward the RayGun slice-and-splatter aesthetic, the editorial voice was staid and serious, their intentions overtly journalistic. We imagined that we were appreciated for being quite the opposite. Operating without competition, Mondo 2000 had been able to define a style for the emerging 'cyber'culture that was quirky, irreverent, intentionally ridiculous, surreal, anarchic, ironic, arch but not minimalist, generous, goofy and science factional rather than traditionally journalistic (operating somewhere at the interstices of information and invention). We viewed our publication as an art form, in an almost classical sense of auteurship. "

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The Doors of Perception: "By a series of, for me, extremely fortunate circumstances I found myself, in the spring of 1953, squarely athwart that trail. One of the sleuths had come on business to California. In spite of seventy years of mescalin research, the psychological material at his disposal was still absurdly inadequate, and he was anxious to add to it. I was on the spot and willing, indeed eager, to be a guinea pig. Thus it came about that, one bright May morning, I swallowed four-tenths of a gram of mescalin dissolved in half a glass of water and sat down to wait for the results. "

This is Aldous Huxley.. btw