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Name: I Think, Therefore Who Am I?

Author: Peter Weissman
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Memoirs, Non Fiction

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ISBNs:
9781425702939
1425702937

In anecdotal style, each chapter relating part of the whole, the narrator of this nonfiction novel relates an odyssey of self-discovery catalyzed by psychedelic drugs over a year. The setting is 1967, the East Village in New York, with one chapter "Summer of Love," in Haight-Ashbury. Other chapter/stories include "Before Almost Everything Changed," a prologue to "My Czechoslovak Awakening"--referring to the two Sandoz-produced capsules that launches him on his year-long-and-beyond adventure. In his sixth-floor tenement pad, in a trancelike supernal world illuminated by the waves and particles emanating from a candle's flame, he undergoes a liberation that eventually challenges his sanity. In the epilogue, forty years later, he presents three alternatives about what might have happened to one of the characters he met along the way, reprising his often ironic search for meaning.

I Think, Therefore Who Am I? has also been published in Italy, with the title Penso, dunque chi sono?