04-26-2020, 10:48 AM
You know, yesterday had me reminicing on Stro and Kwong Wing Lam a lot. When it comes to Stro, he actually did discuss the Jungian implications of his life with me. I suspect because at the time, I was studying psych and conversant in the topic, as well as sport psych (he worked with Thomas Tutko who wrote Sports Psyching and was one of my undergrad advisors). Like your interviewees all say, he was a complex man and we all saw different sides of him. And like Yeti said, he came off as the mook at first. A lot of fencers are mooks (many aren't but enough are) so he didn't show that side.
In retrospect, I was pre-hippie at the time I knew Stro. If you'll remember, I was more of a proto-goth back then (the genre had yet to be defined) and didn't see Jerry play until '87. Nevertheless, I was familiar with the literature from the philosophic and psych perspective. People often write hippies off as illiterate drug abusers (and there are plenty of those) but there is a literate base. I never saw Stro again after he retired from SJSU. I don't remember him coming to AFS when I was there. Maybe he did, but those AFS years were my haziest. I never engaged him as a 'hippie' really. We smoked and drank together, but never shroomed. I remember him being bummed that he had got to the age where pot was making him sleepier and not really getting him that high anymore. Man, how he would've loved the potency of pot nowadays. BTW, you pulled off the psychedelic effects well. I might have added a drop more color, especially for the whiteout with Knies, but it served its purpose.
One more thought - you trowelled in the music very well. Even Stacy thought the music worked and she can be really discerning there.
In retrospect, I was pre-hippie at the time I knew Stro. If you'll remember, I was more of a proto-goth back then (the genre had yet to be defined) and didn't see Jerry play until '87. Nevertheless, I was familiar with the literature from the philosophic and psych perspective. People often write hippies off as illiterate drug abusers (and there are plenty of those) but there is a literate base. I never saw Stro again after he retired from SJSU. I don't remember him coming to AFS when I was there. Maybe he did, but those AFS years were my haziest. I never engaged him as a 'hippie' really. We smoked and drank together, but never shroomed. I remember him being bummed that he had got to the age where pot was making him sleepier and not really getting him that high anymore. Man, how he would've loved the potency of pot nowadays. BTW, you pulled off the psychedelic effects well. I might have added a drop more color, especially for the whiteout with Knies, but it served its purpose.
One more thought - you trowelled in the music very well. Even Stacy thought the music worked and she can be really discerning there.
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