The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter XXVI The Cops and Robbers Game Summary

Chapter XXVI The Cops and Robbers Game Summary and Analysis

Kesey goes to Palo Alto, California, where he stays with an unnamed friend and partakes in a San Francisco State College Acid Test, where the use of LSD has become popular. The Hells Angels escort Kesey, and no police officer dares stop the Angels. Kesey raps over the PA system in a gymnasium where The Acid Test takes place.

The hippie scene confuses the police. There is nothing to compare it with, and an LSD user like Kesey seems too healthy to be on drugs. Others do not look so good, but everyone is getting along well enough in Haight-Ashbury and its carnival-like atmosphere. The Grateful Dead's popularity has risen. Black people have moved away from the acid heads, because LSD destroys coolness, and a kind of cool-square White status develops. Almost everyone is on probation from drug busts, and Wolfe coins it the...
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