GRGR(12) LSD, for good and evil

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

How life affirming is LSD in VL? It's not. It's death
affirming. For example, when Frenesi is discovered to be
with child(our dear Prairie), her friends suggest that she
bring up a child, rather than have an abortion, and include
"LSD in the formula." VL.42

How about Zoyd's use of LSD in VL? The Van Meter trip?
Others and other drugs? Certainly coke is not something we
could say is in any way life affirming in Pynchon's fiction?
How about Pot? I don't think Pot is portrayed in a positive
light either? 

Now we can say that the government's war on drugs, the
planting of drugs in Zoyd's home, the campus odor that
brings in the thugs, the doctors and scam artists that take
advantage of users,  all support the idea that Pynchon is
concerned that the government is high and dangerous, that
little guys getting high with a few friends are being boned
by the state, and yes Rockefella makes it, Richard Nixon
takes it, why can't we,  but can we extend this to the
notion that drugs are a positive or a life affirming force
in Pynchon's novels? How about Prairie's comments about her
father? She can't trust him, can't know if he is paranoid
from pot, or if his brain is too burnt out to be trusted.
She nearly goes off with crazy Hector. OK, she wants her
mom, yes, and the crazy things that are happening to Zoyd
are not something she understands, sounds paranoid, but of
course Brock Vond and the boys are real, and she will trust
him, but Zoyd smokes pot to get through his jump, then
smokes again to see himself jump on the tube. I don't think
this too life affirming.??? 

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