echo of Vineland

[Richard Romeo]

doug sed:
>>Hardly. I consider LSD to be a serious medicine, strong enough to make 
>>some >people see God or the dharma. That's serious medicine. >Second, LSD 
>>is dangerous but not in the ways generally portrayed. By
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some of that mojo worked on me--for a guy who dabbled with mescaline and 
mushrooms, I was quite oddly scared of ever dropping acid, and knowing my 
psychological make-up, i'm thankful I didn't.
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>But LSD is not illegal because it endangers your sanity. LSD is illegal
>because it endangers Control.
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I wonder about Muchos and Zoyd's conversations regarding LSD towards the end 
of Vineland--re-reading it recently, I wonder if it's Pynchon's way of 
shining a light once more on the naivete of the 60s generation that LSD was 
the quick way of learning that one wasn't going to die. The view of LSD in 
Lot 49 is alot more sinister. I think Pynchon's affections for the wonders 
of LSD are evident, but I think he balances that view that it could also 
become another vehicle for Control, Irregardless (that word again, skippy) 
of whether it's the CIA dispensing or not.

Rich

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