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The Hippies Go to Sur [MultiFormat]
eBook by Bruce Boston
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eBook Category: Humor
eBook Description: Joshua had a vision. Without coyness, pretense, or the slightest reservation, he saw all of them going to bed together. In this way they would prove their freedom from the defunct morality and heighten their experience of life.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Berkeley Poets Cooperative #9, 1975
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2003
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [50 KB], eReader (PDB) [23 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [9 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [9 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [61 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [80 KB], hiebook (KML) [51 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [37 KB], iSilo (PDB) [8 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [10 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [38 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [16 KB]
Words: 2725
Reading time: 7-10 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
In the summer of 1967, Joshua and Andrea, Christopher and Suzie, thought of themselves without disdain or self-satire, as hippies. Longhaired and bearded gentlemen, they were. Longhaired and gentle ladies, they were. Dope-smokers, they were. Middle class, they were, but not about to be. Yet the precise meaning of the word "hippie" has evaporated in the passage of time, so with regard to that aspect of their identities we cannot be certain.
Joshua and Andrea lived in north Berkeley in a giant two-bedroom apartment with lots of plants and prints and books and records, plus a couple of cats named Avocado and Punchbowl. Although they were married four years (Joshua and Andrea, not the cats, who were both male) they seldom let on about this fact since most of their friends who were couples merely lived together. Nor did they refer to one another as "husband" and "wife" since they associated such labels with stolidity, boredom, babies and a defunct morality: in short, with their parents. Sometimes Andrea would refer to Joshua as her "old man." Sometimes he would call her his "earth mother." Andrea didn't especially care for this nickname, but she wasn't the type to complain. Besides, she didn't want to hurt her husband's feelings.
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