The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) / quote 24 of 125
The apartment looked wrong
The apartment looked wrong. Normally I loved its raffishness, but now both apartment and its contents looked seedy to the point of being sinister. Gazing around I thought, Christ, what a dump! How has my life come to this? Which wasn’t without a certain humor, since I was rapidly losing any idea of where I had come to, period. Peering through the living-room window, I failed to recognize the buildings on the other side of the lawn. The lawn itself appeared baked and drought-ridden, which led me to believe I was in California, possibly in the suburbs of Los Angeles. At the moment I turned away from the window, my mind went into overdrive. Everything started to happen so fast it became a blur. I don’t know how long this lasted, just a minute or so, I imagine, when equally abruptly everything started to decelerate again . . . like a movie that has been on fast-forward returning to normal with a jerk.