Excerpts from the Notebooks of Philip Whalen

Curated by Brian Unger

OM VAGĪŚVARI MŪM

8 : IX : 67

ran lunatic in the midst of our canoeing trip, had to tie him
up & sit on him in the bottom of the canoe in the daytime, tie
him to a tree at night and he kept talking and laughing and cussing
the whole time we put a gag on him one night so we could get some rest
from his noise but pretty soon he had eaten and swallowed it all some way
or other we were afraid to try that again because he  might get all fouled
up with all the cloth inside then he had to get loose a couple times and
we almost lost him completely hunting for him through the brush and timber
we never would have found him except for his talking and we never did catch
him asleep from the time he first started acting funny