Life v. Art (was Re: Drugs in Pynchon's fiction

[Meg Larson]

And not to put too obvious a point on it, The Zone satisfies (my)
curiosity as to what it might/could have been like to be in the eye of
the hurricane, so to speak.
Fuck the war, and all.

"Lord, into what Sub-urbs Satanick hast Thou introduc'd me this time?"
Mason, to Dixon, Mason & Dixon

Meg Larson
Saginaw, MI
meg.larson at worldnet.att.net

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> Actually, that's one of the little glimmerings I find satisyfing
about the
> book- the experience of the Zone.  Quite an interesting bit of
history.
> That is to say, the satisfaction comes from the novelty of his
portrayal of
> the war- perhaps even the ring of accuracy- not the conformity with
> stereotypes.
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