What Does WoMan Want? Signed by Timothy Leary
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[Signed] Leary, Timothy. What Does WoMan Want? Second Edition. 1988. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition—jacket shows a tiny tear to the upper front cover. Book is boldly signed on the flyleaf, “Timothy Leary, L.A. 90069, Box 69886.” [P.O. Box 69886 was Leary’s Los Angeles address.]
Not many works of science fiction manage to be autobiographical, but this cult novel privately printed in 1977 is the exception. In it, a Timothy Leary character attempts to save mankind in a plot that exists not so much for the sake of the story as it does to present Leary’s Utopian ideas on the convergence of science, psychology, and religion. It is if Ayn Rand and Philip K. Dick collaborated on a book—while tripping on acid. This was the first public press edition and was substantially revised by Leary from the 1977 private press edition.
“I’ve lived a full life myself and put in a lot of time in Hollywood and New York watching the most successful beautiful people in the world do their thing. And I’m left with this funny feeling that no one knows what they’re doing. And that includes me.”
--Timothy Leary
Not many works of science fiction manage to be autobiographical, but this cult novel privately printed in 1977 is the exception. In it, a Timothy Leary character attempts to save mankind in a plot that exists not so much for the sake of the story as it does to present Leary’s Utopian ideas on the convergence of science, psychology, and religion. It is if Ayn Rand and Philip K. Dick collaborated on a book—while tripping on acid. This was the first public press edition and was substantially revised by Leary from the 1977 private press edition.
“I’ve lived a full life myself and put in a lot of time in Hollywood and New York watching the most successful beautiful people in the world do their thing. And I’m left with this funny feeling that no one knows what they’re doing. And that includes me.”
--Timothy Leary
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