GRGR(34) - New Dope

[Can't Wait]

Well the 'new dope' certainly isn't death, and it is describable, but
it does have that remarkable quality of seeming to Find you--or to
suddenly presence itself.

I'm no head or anything, although I may as well be because it's as
good as anything on planet earth, in that perpetual absurdity we call
consciousness, but I had the opportunity this weekend to dip my
tongue in some liquid, ahem, lsd.  Talk about a screaming comes
across the sky....Being in the zone, you know, for me anyway,
particularities begin to lose their particular qualities, differences
like feeling and thought and reason and matter and love and hate all
begin to be realized as the Same, and coming out from that, out from
that joining, that root of being and nothingness, is a thing, it's
that Thing, it's something that is it's own opposite, it's that
thingness, that thing, it's that thing presencing....only what is
that Thing?

In all seriousness, there is a remarkable affinity between the
psychedelic experience--the gathering of the fourfold into the
nearing presence of the thing--and Heidegger's thought.  Don't let
nobody tell you otherwise, cause I know them both as well as anybody
who knows them both.  It's interesting about Nietzsche on the
otherhand, because you never really get a sense while tripping that
that Thing is the will to power, although the presencing of that
Thing is quite totally 'beyond good and evil', and there's nothing
better towards a facilitation of Revaluation than finally coming
away--I mean just after the peak--from the thing but it's still
there, still shining, still gathering itself into the clearing.


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--- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> -----------
> (745.28) a brand new kind of dope that nobody's ever heard of.  One
> of the 
> most annoying characteristics of the shit is that the minute you
> take it you 
> are rendered incapable of ever telling anybody what it's like, or
> worse, 
> where to get any. [...] It's the dope that finds _you_, apparently.
> ----------
> 
> Poolside this last weekend I read this passage to my wife.  I
> thought she 
> might like the film-under-the-rug bit (she's endured many of these
> short 
> readings from GR).  She responded, "It [New Dope] sounds like
> death."  I've 
> got a smart woman (and she knows it).  Nobody who's taken (been
> found by) 
> this drug is able to tell the tale of its trip....
> 
> Remember the Loonies on Leave?  They were selling  New Dope: 
> "Lightning 
> Latch, The Door that _Opens You!_" (260.10)  The next night he's
> offered 
> some other "New Dope," LSD, by the same dude who later delivers the
> file on 
> Lazlo Jamf. --- We next encounter Slothrop "In the Zone," having
> read Jamf's 
> dossier.  New Dope indeed!
> 
> Slothrop's been _geographically_ "In the Zone" since his departure
> from the 
> Casino H.G.  But in Jamf's crypt he's ingested Jamf's "New Dope." 
> This 
> informational confrontation is coupled with another
> "confrontation," and 
> both are "his own tests," which he miraculously passes.  Slothrop
> has a 
> miraculous way with passages and thresholds.  He may later "wish he
> hadn't 
> hadn't read anything of" his New Dope.  It is the revelation of his
> father's 
> betrayal which Hume calls an "illuminating disillusionment."
> (p.111)  Say 
> hello to "Pernicious Pop!"  But remember, Slothrop PASSES this test
> in 
> Jamf's crypt, finally a test he has set for HIMSELF!
> 
> Is this passage "death?"  Maybe so, and if so, may your death be so
> joyful!  
> Amen!
> 
> David Morris
> 
> 
>
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