LSD

[Dave Monroe]

>From Jacques Derrida, "Plato's Pharmacy,"
Dissemination (trans. Barbara Johnson, Chicago: U of
Chicago P, 1981), pp. 61-172 ...

"This pharmakon, this 'medicine,' this philter, which
acts as both remedy and poison, already introduces
itself into the body of the discourse with all its
ambivalence." (p. 70)

Y'all knew I was going to do that, didn't you ...

--- KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
> Isn't P.'s attitude towards LSD and drugs generally
> just simply ambivalent, as the most things in
> Pynchon's work? I think it's the way how you use it 
> what makes the difference. Every remedy can also be
> a poison - it depends on the dose.

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