Drugs in Pynchon's fiction

[Paul Mackin]

This is getting complicated :-) In an earlier post Chris said where the
quote came from. Terrance picked up the quote from my reply to Chris
with the needed necessary info Chris had supplied cut out for brevity's
sake.

I did a bit of a double take on the quote myself as my reply to Chris
indicated. Can't imagine P wanting for himself the effect  the drug is
purported to produce. P on occasion might toy with Eastern or occult
thought but isn't ready for Nirvana yet.
	
			P.

On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Terrance F. Flaherty wrote:

> 
> 
> Paul Mackin wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, christopher davey wrote:
> > 
> > > 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
> 
> 
> Is this the complete quote? Where does it come from? Has
> anyone confirmed that Pynchon wrote or said this? Even if he
> did, its sounds more like a description of the effects of
> taking the substance and not an endorsement, a
> recommendation that people take it.
>