Source Code is about conspiracies, altered minds and altered states, far-fetched in the most elegant and Hitchcockian way, and the sheer outrageousness of it all is muscular and streamlined.
They trigger sentiments and alter minds.
Unlike those of the counterculture generation, however, Harvey Pekar didn't want to destroy society or alter minds through comics.
Deeply embittered, he turned to his old friend Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's alter mind (not alter ego, he insists), for help in writing a book.
Lemmy's life of drug-taking can be saluted with a wry smile, even if it can't be made explicit that without the workings of his chemically altered mind, his music wouldn't have been so distinctive and influential.
Mr. Roth's alter mind, Nathan Zuckerman, like Mr. Bellow's Chick, is ailing and aging, trying to comprehend the life of a friend, Coleman Silk, after being shaken by his death".
Willem de Kooning's final canvases are spare abstractions whose ethereal lines convey none of the slathered fury of his most celebrated works; they seem like emanations of an altered mind but remain coherent works of art.
He said: " I think alcohol and drugs, mood altering, mind altering, especially with that crack cocaine.
It's logical to assume that regular intake of mind-altering chemicals will alter your mind for the worse, eventually.
"I absolutely just loved altering my mind".
