Drugs in Pynchon's fiction ( - minor SPOILER)
Lorentzen / Nicklaus
lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
Sat Oct 23 08:04:41 CDT 1999
rj schrieb:
> I'd be particularly interested to read any anti-coke references, I must
> say.
Me too. Here comes a pro-coce reference: "1904 (...) was the year the American
Food and Drug people took the cocaine out of Coca-Cola, which gave us an
alcoholic and death-orientated generation of Yanks ideally equipped to fight WW
II ..." (GR, p. 452).
Isaiah Two Four does not seem to have any dilemma with his coce snorting.
KFL
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