GRGR(12) LSD, for good and evil

[Richard Romeo]

>
>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?
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As with anything in Pynchon, nothing is stated as so positive or negative, 
even drugs.  My favorite scene related to mind-alteration is Tchitcherine 
drooling in the desert whilst viewing the Kirghiz Light--he's at the edge of 
revelation, but he will always be deemed unworthy--surely, a fine statement 
on psychedlics, in that, passed a certain point, there's no place to move 
forward to, you get as much out of them as anything else, but they leave you 
wanting.

Rich

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