Drugs in Pynchon's fiction

[Greg Montalbano]

Actually, I think you may be missing one of the more important aspects of
the whole Bopp/CAMP  episode,  which is pointed to by the sentence that
went (more or less, from memory) "... where certain parts of the US became,
temporarily,  the third world."

Not so much his love of dope, as his hatred of cops & cop bullshit.


At 05:32 PM 10/24/99 CDT, you wrote:
>Amen.
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>>From: Doug Millison
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>>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.
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>An all-time high in "American" story-telling!  IMHO TRP LUVS POT!
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>Mee Two,
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>David Morris
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