MDMD drinking in colonial America

[Doug Millison]

Not to say that Pynchon seems to be striving for historical versimilitude
above all other effects, but historians do record that early American
colonists drank an awful lot.  I've seen studies that report quantities of
alcoholic beverage consumption that seem very high compared to the current
norms in the more health-conscious quarters of the Repubic.

>Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 12:30:00 +0100
>From: Michel Ryckx <michel.ryckx at freebel.net>
>Subject: MD[ead]MD[ead](8): Nationalism?

[...]
>
>A chapter with nationalism in it.  But: Dixon may be drunk --there is
>really a lot of drinking going on in this novel-- ; and a clock's
>credibility must yet be proven.  No need then to read Gravity's
>Rainbow's You Want Cause And Effect in this chapter.
>
>Well, it caused in this reader a minor 'Tremolo of amusement' (M&D,
>122.36).
>
>Michel.
>



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