Score!!!
Score!!!
As promised, here’s a bit more about my time with my cousin Marc.. I
found out this weekend that my cousin Marc studied Alchemy since the
1970’s. When he was in high school, he collected lab glassware and was
extracting oils like banana oil and distilling corn mash in his parents’
basement. My dad was really intrested in his experiments when I was
really young. When I was about 10 or so, I inherited a collection of he
lab glassware. I didn’t know what much of it was, but being a dutiful
packrat, I carried the box of lab glassware around from place to place.
About 7 years or so ago. I shipped it to Marc because i was tired of
carrying it around. In the interim, i have become intersted in doing
some alchemical studies, particularly the lab work, and would like to
make things like absinthe or essential oils that require distillation
and condensation processes. My interest has been encouraged by Diarmid’s
recent studies of alchemy in which he has be heen doing some stuff. In
my conversations with Marc, I learned that the reason he had all this
equipment in the first place was to do alchemy! He was collecting and
reading alchemical books when he was in the navy in the 70’s (marc’s
1lmost 11 yrs older than me). As it turned out, when I gave him the box
of stuff, his father subsequently found another box of stuff including a
few more contensers. One of the surprises of this is that I have half of
a scxholet extractor. Oh, and by the way, according to Marc, that word
is pronounced “soh-LAY”. This is a picture of the collection of lab
glassware that Marc gave back to me today. 