Drugs in Pynchon's fiction

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

> "I stayed with Jules because he was the poet and the hippie. We actually
> lived in a commune. We weren't pretending. We were the real thing. Tom
> didn't stick his neck out and live the way he wrote. [...]  He's very
> conventional and old-fashioned and has the values of his generation of the
> Fifties from upper class Oyster Bay. He never met a person who said 'dig'
> or 'man' or 'it's not my bag.' It's only in his imagination. He'd like to
> be one of his characters and wear a black leather jacket and stand on the
> corner and spit. Or he'd like to be one of those surfers that he studied
> like a sociologist in Manhattan Beach. He's really a professional
> sociologist, studying people."
> --from _Lineland_

You know Don McLean hated BoB Dylan--his jester on the
sidelines in a cast, stealing the king's crown, and sporting
a James Dean jacket, but he wrote American Pie, not
Lineland. 

TITROT as surfers say.