“A conclusion of that same era was that language is alive. I experienced this very concretely on acid. English as an animal, a kind of amoeba, extending its pseudopodia of description into every nook and cranny of reality, a kind of syntactical Los Angeles, ever growing, expanding and including more and more empty or natural territory into its grid of meaning.” — Terence McKenna, Orfeo: A Dialog Between Robert Hunter and Terence McKenna