… aka Grinning Cat aka The Alice Pill.
Calculus and Martha reckoned G-Cat had done its job. My biographical flashback seemed – to them – commendably accurate. What is more i didn’t puke. Not once during the trip, not once after. i was decidedly G-Cat apt, said everyone. Never felt so proud.
What is G-Cat?
It is molecularly tweaked ayahuasca, a synthesised hallucinogen that we typically procure from Koockie’s cousin.
i have granddad’s blessings because it is non-addictive. That first time though, in handing me the tiny (black and blue striped) pill, i detected a certain hesitancy in his gravelly voice.
– Remember it ain’t come out of a box of Liquorice Allsorts.
What on earth are Liquorice Allsorts, i thought. But i nodded as though i understood. Not wanting to give him any reason to withhold a pill i had long coveted.
– Go easy on ‘em.
In this respect i am an obedient grandson, using G-Cat sparingly.
Drug Lents
Calculus recommends periods of abstinence aka DL’s. There can be no freedom, he reasons, if one is enslaved to a chemical, especially a drug whose supply you cannot guarantee.
Newly imprisoned on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela kicked a heavy cigarette habit, an early act of resistance for it diminished (albeit slightly) the power which the guards held over him. Addiction being a form of slavery, right?
Coming from a man enslaved himself to the tobacco plant, this is a bit rich. On the other hand, he knows of what he smokes/speaks.