Drugs in Pynchon's fiction

[rj]

"Terrance F. Flaherty" <Lycidas at worldnet.att.net>:

> Pynchon
> shows us the destruction of the addictive or abusive use of
> drugs in CL.

The representation of Mucho's addiction in *Lot 49* needs to be mediated
by his (healthy) reappearance in *VL*, I think; but even so the
*experience* he has in *Lot 49* of heightened auditory sensation is not
represented as a destructive one.

I've never said that Pynchon is advocating drug use, only that he is
endorsing the experience.

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