I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper. In a different age, we used to take acid for more or less the same reason. Michael Cunningham
About This Quote

Acid, or LSD, is a hallucinogen well known for its ability to cause users to see their surroundings in strange and unusual ways. When people take acid, they may come to realize that the wallpaper patterns they see are just patterns in the wallpaper, not actual patterns. That’s what this quote is referring to. The mind is capable of seeing patterns where there are none.

Source: A Home At The End Of The World

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