The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) / quote 79 of 125
Peak during third hour
My only misgiving was that I had lost all sense of time. In itself this wasn’t particularly uncommon. To counter it, I had made a habit of always taking my dose at exactly twelve noon: twelve o’clock I could always remember, and I had only to look at my watch to tell my whereabouts in the drug’s trajectory. The first hour it was still coming on; the second it was going deeper fast; and in the third it climaxed. During this particular trip I even found a note printed in capitals I had written to myself and propped up against the water bottle. “peak during third hour,” it read. Unfortunately I could no longer work out exactly what this meant. Twelve to one, I thought, that’s one hour. One to two, that’s two hours (I was counting this out on my fingers, as ponderously as a Neanderthal); two to three, that’s three. But what I couldn’t work out was whether the note meant that the climax came in the hour leading up to three, or in the hour following it. I squatted under the tree, staring at my three mute fingers.