Drugs in Pynchon's fiction ( - minor SPOILER)

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:
> 
> >  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.
> 
> Yes it does seem like what P meant. On the other hand what's the
> difference between a coke addicted and an alcohol addicted American
> Fighting Machine. Both substances can give the feeling of invincibility.
> P's words provide superb atmospherics, have a wonderful sound to them, but
> don't invariably seem to make a lot of literal sense. (but who needs
> literal sense--not this hepcat)
> 
>                         P.


What? Pro-coce? Explain this please. I have read it three
times, and I don't see how this could be pro-coce?????