Well it was easy enough to procure the gold.... $20.00 on Ebay will get you at least a few grams of unrefined 23K gold in flake form.
Now to procure the rest of what I need for the Tincture of the Sun: that's going to be significantly more difficult. This is hilarious. You would think the gold would be the most expensive part. To get the rest of what I would need to make the tincture will cost me about $350.00...
- Spirit of Salt (Hydrochloric Acid) $19.00
- Spirit of Nitre (Nitric Acid) $17.00
- Ether (Purified Ether (C4H10O) $47.00
- Water of Life / Spirit of Wine (Concentrated Aqueous Ethanol 200 proof) $28.00
- Glass Syringe $38.00
- Glassware Kit $189.95
Of course, I don't know what I'm complaining about... Seeing the film 25 times in the theatre, buying two DVDs, the poster, the book, the ~Unmentionable Awards~ consideration book, has cost me about $400.00 total, but thats a rough estimate.... and I guess another $100.00 for various books, notebooks, pens, paints, pigments, for my diligant study of personal transformation, and well I did spend about $200.00 on a computer so I could work on my book in privacy.... Wow, this is really adding up. This is the most expensive thing that's ever happened to me.
I guess you get out of it what you put into it though, so its all good.