Drugs in Pynchon's fiction

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

chris d. schrieb:
> 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.

 Thank you very much for posting the quotation again! Already thought I had  
 dreamed that...  Kai