Drugs in Pynchon's fiction

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Paul Mackin wrote:
>   Wouldn't it be awful if after all
> the interpretation, explication and hermenutics P has been subjected to
> he should on his death bed come to murmur--That was not what I meant at
> all, not what I meant at all.

Yes. To maintain silence in response to the academy for an entire
lifetime only to blow it with his last breath would indeed be awful.