Pynchon Gets Stoned,Loses Lottery Ticket

Jhildt at aol.com Jhildt at aol.com
Mon Jan 1 23:32:06 CST 1996


This from the "influences" section of the bio given on the San Narcisco TP
Page:

<Of the ultra-sensory quality:
On the writing of Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon reportedly told  [Jules] Siegel,
"I was so fucked up while I was writing it . . . that now I go back over some
of those sequences and I can't figure out what I could have meant.">


You're not surprised?


                                           Jeff



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