You never did the Kenosha Kid?

[Rcfchess at aol.com]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but how does that "debunk" the "mythos"?  
Seems to me that if anything it confirms it...?! According to Kelberetc., the  
drug not only "extracted" the truth (as well as the tooth; sorry about that) 
but  he didn't even remember the experience; isn't that what the "mythos"  
says...?
RF
 
In a message dated 09/02/2005 12:57:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
strongbool at gmail.com writes:

Well  maybe you're just one of these weak-minded sorts...you know, the type 
that is  also susceptible to hypnosis or organized religion?

Personally I hate  to see the mythos surrounding Sodium Amytol debunked...it 
really is a handy  plot device.  

On 9/2/05, _kelber at mindspring.com_ (mailto:kelber at mindspring.com)  
<_kelber at mindspring.com_ (mailto:kelber at mindspring.com) >  wrote:  
Years  ago, after graduating from college, I had my wisdom teeth pulled. The  
dentist gave me an injection of what he called "truth serum," which I  
assumed  to be sodium pentathol.  He gave me the  injection and I asked him how long 
it would take and he told me it had  already happened.  I thought he was 
kidding, until I noticed my  mouth was stuffed full of bloody cotton.  There was 
absolutely no  sensation of grogginess or falling asleep.  From my point of 
view  it had been instantaneous.  But the dentist knew all about my  career 
goals, concerns, etc.  Apparently I had discussed the whole  thing very coherently 
while I was under.  I don't know whether it  was prompted by questions from 
the dentist, or if I was just spilling my  guts.  My guess is that the drug I 
got was similar, if not  identical to what Slothrop got.  It doesn't necessarily 
mean that  my experience of instantaneousness is typical or that Pynchon was 
familiar  with this type of  experience.










-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20050902/58ef979a/attachment.html>