Art, Beatniks, Sex, Hippies, Art Festivals, Mind Expansion and Mortality. Tempus Fugitive is Dion's personal history of the American counter-culture of the 20th century, as he experienced, observed and documented it. About the book, Dion says, "Tempus Fugitive is an historical memoir of mid-20th Century American culture and counter-culture, with emphasis on art, psychology, philosophy, and how the pursuit of expanded consciousness via chemistry, relative to these and other subjects, had many and often mortal, unforeseen consequences. All of this high-falutin' intent will be carried in...