I hate that it took Tom Wolfe’s death today for me to break out my tattered copy of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Though this book hasn’t been out of my shelf in a few years…(In it I found a menu for ordering fresh fruit on my honeymoon – 2007 – and 2 ticket stubs to the Indianapolis Children’s Museum – from 2013 – which is a funny place to have this book LOL!!??), this book contains a passage I think of often and fondly…
This memorable and favorite passage is on finding the meaning of life, on finding this meaning when in a certain “state of mind.” I hadn’t read this passage in several years but today I did…
This passage was easy to find because of course this page is folded down and this passage is underlined; this is how I treat my favorite books. Here it is:
“A great flash of insight came to me. I’ve forgotten in now, but there was one instant when everything fell into place and made sense, and I said aloud, ‘Oh, of course!’…why didn’t I see all this before, why couldn’t I have realized all these things and not resisted them so much. That didn’t last, and hasn’t recurred.”
That last line…it made me laugh then and does still now, and who can’t relate??
Thumbing through this book makes me want to give it another read. I hope you will too. Thanks Tom Wolfe for (almost) sharing the meaning of life!
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