GRGR(12)NOTES (3)

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

>From W's GR Companion"

V260.30,B303.4, "interested in some L.S.D.?" The source,
here of a monetary pun ("pound, shilling, and pence"); it is
the Sandoz hallucinogenics indole compound again.

V261.4,B303.20-21 indole people     Those who focus their
research on compounds of indole, a white, powdered coal-tar
derivative with various pharmacological uses--for instance,
in the preparation of LSD. Note that in all respects the
drug LSD is linked in GR with the North, the color White
(symbolic of death), the IG Farben, and an "elect" of
researchers and business tycoons who are imagined "at the
end of a long European dialectic" (V.261.9) of progress
towards Death's other kingdom."

Remember anyone?

marijuana, marijuana, LSD, LSD
Rockefeller makes it
Richard Nixon takes it 
why can't we
why can't we



Ashes ashes, we all fall down

Terrance--who saw the best minds of his neighborhood
destroyed by drugs




David Morris wrote:
> 
> I'd say LSD falls more into the category of King Kong, the mutation.  It was
> accidentally discovered.  It is not easily harnessed for Their uses (though
> They've tried).  Does Weisenburger have more than Sandoz to link LSD with
> the color White (death)?
> 
> >From: lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
> >
> >Terrance schrieb:
> > > >Weisenburger notes that LSD is linked
> > > in GR with the North, the color White (death), IG Farben.
> >
> >
> >  It seems to stand in opposition to Amanita muscaria (- recently I took
> >flycaps
> >  for the very first time & was quite delighted). Though this fits well in
> >the
> >  novel's scheme, it's not really plausible to call LSD a death affirming
> >drug,
> >  or? Like MDMA, which was synthesized by German industry around 1920, LSD
> >is -
> >  according to  my experience - very  life affirming. And in Vineland we
> >get
> >  quite a different picture from that substance.
> >
> >  Kai (- who is still interested in the Pynchon quotation on MDMA)
> >
> >  PS: The only death affirming drugs I know are downers.
> >
> 
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