Thoroughly postmodern Pynchon

[Terrance]

Terrance wrote:
> 
> It was Paracelsus who said it, long before Derrida and even
> before Plato, "it depends only upon the amount whether a
> poison is poisonous or not."

 Philippus Aureolus. 1493-1541. German-Swiss alchemist and
physician who introduced the concept of disease to medicine.
He held that illness was the result of external agents
attacking the body rather than imbalances within the body
and advocated the use of chemicals against disease-causing
agents.


Just to give those pesky and picky members something to
object to.