TRP on high

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Richard Romeo notes:
"I remember Jules Siegel's ex-wife Chrissie telling us in NYC a few months
ago that Pynch did not indulge at the time she knew him. He was observing
friends and others  who were.  She called him a boy scout."


That also seems likely from internal evidence of the novels.  V. is quite
puritanical about drugs in general.  COL49 still tends to be negative on the whole--
just look at Mucho and Hilarius.  But GR is at least ambivalent--eg., stuff
that's been processed--a la coal-tar derivatives--is "bad" but pot, etc. is
fine.  VINELAND seems more open to the altered mind experience on the whole.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)