Wisdom’s
Maw: The Acid Novel by Todd Brendan Fahey (1996)
Todd Brendan Fahey
An easy book to have missed, it was self-published, after
being praised but turned down by just about every publisher in America for fear
of being sued by one or more of the surviving cast of characters (according to
Fahey).
Fahey has taken the facts, the rumours and the conspiracy
theories concerning the CIA, the Hippies, JFK’s murder and everyone who was
anyone in the Counter Culture of the 1960’s and added a tab or two of
inspiration (LSD) to create a mad bad alternative history that might just be
true after all.
Some of the characters are thinly disguised by name changes
(Franklin Moore is the late great Ken Kesey, Carlo Marx is Alan Ginsberg (Fahey
used the same alias as Jack Kerouac used for Ginsberg in ‘On The Road’)) while
many retain their true identities; including the larger than life Captain Al
Hubbard.
Al Hubbard
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