Drugs in Pynchon's fiction

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

rj wrote:

> 
> I think the point he makes in the *SL* intro is that he took the lesson
> from Kerouac to get out on the road himself, and listen to the Greyhound
> voices and whatnot, in order to get to the heart of the prevailing
> social attitudes and experience. I guess there are resemblances in the
> literary register Pynchon adopts. I also think that much in Pynchon's
> fiction can be considered phenomenological, and that his narratives are
> picaresque, like *On the Road*, *The Dharma Bums* &c.


Sure on can take a Phenomenological approach, lots of folks
do, if you are referring to literary theory? The picaresque
in Pynchon is also very important, I think. Benny Profane is
a parody of the picaro and Slothrop's adventure may be seen
as combining the Benny Profane narrative in V.--parody of
picaresque and the narrative of Herbert Stencil in V.---a
parody of Romance quest.

In terms of Eddins and what you suggest he missed, see the
introduction where he answers McHale and others.