The context of Pynchon's MDMA saying

[Cjhurtt6 at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/14/99 12:44:57 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de writes:

<< Part of it can be avoided by drinking (non-alcohols)& sleeping enough 
   afterwards. And it must be real pure MDMA (- not some dirty garage speed 
which 
   is only sold as "XTC"). >>
thank you for the info. there seems to be an even split between people saying 
that the come down is really bad (making it useless for the treatment of 
depression) and that it isn't all that bad. it is very possible that the 
people that i know took something that was cooked up by some freak of a 
basement chemist.