Neal Cassady & I went upstairs to attic at Millbrook estate near Poughkeepsie, big house where Tim Leary's Castalia Foundation was then experimenting with psychedelic DMT, a half hour trip. Here Neal … watched over by Susan Metzner in charge of holding the vial of clear liquid, [to be] injected. I'd driven up from N.Y. with Kesey's Merry Pranksters in their bus, Fall 1964.










