Happy Birthday, LSD!

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "pynchonoid" <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
To: "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 1:34 AM
Subject: Happy Birthday, LSD!


> <http://www.flashback.se/archive/my_problem_child/>
>
>  (...)
> -Doug, wondering which pointsman threw the switches
> that led Hoffman to LSD
>
> "Jamf at the time was working for a Swiss outfit
> called Psychochemie AG, originaly known as the Grossli
> Chemical Corporation, a spinoff from Sandoz (where, as
> every schoolchild knows, the legendary Dr. Hoffman
> made his important discovery)"
> -Gravity's Rainbow, p. 250
>

Correcting an error: the guy is called Hofmann with a single-f in the
middle.

Otto