Drugs in Pynchon's fiction

[David Morris]

Amen.


>From: Doug Millison
>
>Making marijuana the target of Bopp and the CAMP Nazis in Vineland shows
>pretty clearly whose side TRP is on, don't you think? He gives pot the
>loving treatment in Mason & Dixon, too. Pot in M&D would also seem to
>illustrate the good/evil dichotomy I spoke of re LSD in GR, as pot is
>associated with the noble Native Americans (and the indigenous peoples in
>their Latitudes & Departures adventures) even as it is exploited
>commercially by the capitalist settlers who colonize the giant marijuana
>tree.

An all-time high in "American" story-telling!  IMHO TRP LUVS POT!

Mee Two,

David Morris

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