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I was working on something involving psychotropic drugs, and it got me wondering what the relationship was between a mind-altering substance and a torrid climate ... other than that the pretty poppies grow nicely there, I mean. And so we learn that "tropic" is ME tropik, LL tropicus, Gr tropikos, belonging to a turn (of the sun at the solstices), from trope, a turn. I just thought I'd share. 
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Sorry. I *did* search for psychotropic with no hits.
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But it's good that Sparteye brought up tropic again here so that Bingley could direct us all below the equator for a very interesting, topical discussion on tropes of all types.
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one good trope deserves another.
formerly known as etaoin...
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So can we then assume that psychotropic means to "turn the mind?" I'm reminded of the Timothy Learyism: Tune in, turn on, drop out.
Sparteye, have you read Huxley's "Storming Heaven?"
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Yes, DougS, psychotropic drugs, for instance, would be ones that turn the mind, as you put it.
But--I'm just kidding around here--a psychotropic would also be Hannibal Lechter at the conclusion of Silence of the Lambs.
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Timothy Leary paid a high price for his use of recreational drugs. And so did a lot of the pathetic jerks who copied
him. I saw quite a few of them when the melody was over
but the malady lingered on.
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Doug, I have not read Storming Heaven. What about it brought it to mind here?
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Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens
A fascinating book about the early days of LSD experimentation. Harvard, the US Government, celebrities, Leary, Kesey, et al. I read it years ago and remember not being able to put it down.
Nice Lechter ref, WW!
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