She was a non-student, a runaway from smalltown lowclass Oklahoma, she said, come to Berkeley she didn’t know why, her boyfriend was into an off-the-wall movie trip, like we were into this thing where the camera is your brother so you’re free to do anything, do any thing, every thing you can think of, a sex thing, everybody was up on acid, and I began thinking, Shit, man, we’re into this thing where all learning is considered good, like that brought us the hydrogen bomb, you know.
Later, leaving her apartment, That’s the real problem, she said, it’s too damn bad everything has to be so casual.