salvia
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salvia is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 24, 2021 and November 10, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “Declassed also are … salvia”; “I think salvia is known for this”. It most often appears alongside 1950s, 1980s, 1983.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 24, 2021
- Last seen: November 10, 2022
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- 1950s (1 shared issues)
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- 1980s (1 shared issues)
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- 1983 (1 shared issues)
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- 2020er (1 shared issues)
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- ADIDAS (1 shared issues)
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- Akron (1 shared issues)
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- Albemarle (1 shared issues)
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- Albuquerque (1 shared issues)
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- amaryllis (1 shared issues)
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- Amazon (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- Andres (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Anyone imagining that just any sort of flowers can be presented in the front of a house without status jeopardy would be wrong. Upper-middle-class flowers are rhododendrons, tiger lilies, amaryllis, columbine, clematis, and roses, except for bright-red ones. One way to learn which flowers are vulgar is to notice the varieties favored on Sunday-morning TV religious programs like Rex Humbard's or Robert Schuller's. There you will see primarily geraniums (red are lower than pink), poinsettias, and chrysanthemums, and you will know instantly, without even attending to the quality of the discourse, that you are looking at a high-prole setup. Other prole flowers include anything too vividly red, like red tulips. Declassed also are phlox, zinnias, salvia, gladioli, begonias, dahlias, fuchsias, and petunias. Members of the middle class will sometimes hope to mitigate the vulgarity of bright-red flowers by planting them in a rotting wheelbarrow or rowboat displayed on the front lawn, but seldom with success.
Suppose that every person who takes a certain drug (I think salvia is known for this) independently expresses that time is moving more slowly, even if they don’t know this is a common effect of the drug they’re on. They’re clearly not making it up - otherwise how could they all coordinate on the same lie? So they must be having some subjective experience that causes them to believe it. I would call this subjective experience “the subjective experience of time moving slowly”.