GRGR(12) LSD, for good and evil

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Richard Romeo wrote:
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> >Richard Romeo wrote:
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> > > >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
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> >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.
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> > > Rich
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> >Beautiful, this is Pynchon's apocalyptic, at the edge of
> >revelation, wanting, unworthy? Why?
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> we all stumble upon revelation--it is our lot to miss the signs and always
> misinterpret--isn't that its inherent nature as symbols, they're
> undefinable, pin-down-able, is-ness. 

Yes, but even though we stumble to it, the singes inherently
undeniable, the content of revelation remain ambiguous, the
imminent expectation of revelation does not remain
ambiguous.