Yo, V-Land Freaks

[stencil]

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997  at 11:26:58 -0700, Steelhead chucked the
handshoe:

>All you V-land freaks. I challenge you to come up with 
>a better passage than the above.
No takers here.  Better than a Bacon painting.
>All you who say Pynch never dropped acid. Read the above again [...]
Not to say "never" is not to say "did".  The case, still open, is
still inferential.  What testimony we do have is not positive.
Besides...: long before the Aptos years, when Huxley's essays were
giving the nihil obstat to experimentation while stressing the
effectiveness of nonchemical tools, TRP seems already to have
developed a fondness for finessing experience through listening,
study, and thought.  The tool may have felt sharp enough that, come
the '60s and the chance to go to Frisco, buy a wig, and sleep on
Owlsley's floor, TRP would have passed by the more extreme diversions.
Prudence there, not fear, the way a musician would walk the hills but
pass up a chance to do a little rockclimbing.

>Someone may be listening. Someone my have their tape
>recording running. Newt, I'm with you on that one buddy.
No "may be" about it. Every word, every character, every bit.  Never
ever believe the shuck about excessive volume prev 
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...scuse me, gotta go, somebody's at the doo