Drugs in Pynchon's fiction

[christopher davey]

I think there's at least one drug that Pynchon has provided unequivocal endorsement of. That's MDMA: I posted the quote and asked if anyone knew anything about it some time last year.

The quote was:

"The circuits of the brain which mediate alarm, fear, fright, fight, lust, and territorial paranoia are temporarily disconnected. You see everything with total clarity, undistorted by animalistic urges.  You have reached a state which the ancients have called nirvana, all seeing bliss."
-- Thomas Pynchon on MDMA

I read it in Douglas Rushkoff's Cyberia. Doug Millison said he knew Rushkoff and asked him where he got the quote. Apparently it was from Bruce Eisner's book, Ecstasy: The MDMA Story.

Cheers

Chris
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