person
also known as Tim Leary
The 1960s LSD figure, whom Bob uses less for himself than as a measuring stick — the name that dates the psychedelic decade, and later a type-case of the public figure the "discarnate mob" raises up and then discards. New to it — start with dialogue 23.
Across the dialogues
13
Enters as a benchmark — the 1950s cast as the era with its own "Tim Leary" figure working out set and setting first
Bob uses Leary as a chronological benchmark — casting an earlier figure who mapped "set and setting" before Leary as "the Tim Leary of the 50s."
"the Tim Leary of the 50s"
23
Recast as a type — the individual who "rises up out of the discarnate mob" and is then "brushed off the fabric"
In the "Furry Lint" conceit Bob makes Leary one of the figures — with Malcolm X, King, Flynt — thrown up by the discarnate mob and then "brushed off the fabric."
"rises up out of the discarnate mob and starts getting attention"
Connections
invoked byBob Dobbs
Bob uses Leary as a benchmark for the psychedelic 1950s and, later, as a type-case of the figure the "discarnate mob" raises up and discards.