when the drugs began to take hold.

[ Duke ] l remember saying something like:

l feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe you should drive.

## [ Continues ]

- Hmm ? - Suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us...

and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats...

- [ Bats Screeching ] - all swooping and screeching and diving around the car.

- And a voice was screaming: - Holy Jesus, what are these goddamned animals ?

- [ Grunting ] - [ Rock Continues ] # Come on, baby #

- Did you say something ? - Hmm ?

Never mind.

lt's your turn to drive.

No point in mentioning these bats, l thought.

The poor bastard'll see them soon enough.

# Baby, l'm startin' to feel human #

- # Ohh, ohh, yeah # - # Hey, hey, Feel with me, baby #

- [ Grunting ] - # 'Cause l feel it comin' on ##

## [ Continues ]

- [ Screeching Continues ] - Fucking pigs ! Flying !

[ Grunting, Murmuring ]

We had two bags of grass...

75 pellets of mescaline...

five sheets of high-powered blotter acid...

a salt shaker half-full of cocaine...

a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.

Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer...

- a pint of raw ether... - Shit !

two dozen amyls.

Not that we needed all that for the trip...

but once you get locked into a serious drug collection...

the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

The only thing that really worried me was the ether.

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved...

than a man in the depths of an ether binge...

and l knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.

[ Radio: Female Newscaster ] A House subcommittee report says illegal drugs killed...

160 American G.l.s Iast year...

40 of them in Vietnam.

- [ Tuning ] - # One toke over the line Sweet Jesus #

One toke, man !

[ Singing Along With Radio, Slightly Behind ] # One toke over the line #

# Sittin' downtown at a railway station #

# One toke over the line #

- One toke, you poor fool ? - # Sweet, sweet Mary #

Wait'll you see those goddamned bats, man.

# Mine #