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The Book Club is open to all. We are currently meeting on the Second and Fourth Wednesday of every month, (every other Wednesday) 7.30 til whenever, at The Red Wire Studios, 69 Victoria Street, (www.redwireredwire.com).

Every time the text is different, brought by someone different. Text can be a short story, an exerpt, a caption, an article, a poem - anything that has captured your imagination.
Anyone can join in, Everyone is welcome.

We have already covered a wide variety of interesting texts. This blog archives all the texts we have looked at so far... Feel free to read along with us and definitely write your own comments...

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Monday 16 March 2009

The Frozen Jug Band

Monday 16th March
The Frozen Jug Band, from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1968

I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at once, and the strobe light was flashing faster than it had been...the band was playing but I couldn't hear the music...people were dancing...someone came up to me and I shut my eyes and with a machine he projected images on the back of my eye-lids...I sought out a person I trusted and he laughed and told me that the Kool-Aid had been spiked and that I was beginning my first LSD experience...

Selected by Flis Mitchell

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