ATD SP0ILER pp. 182-183

[pynchonoid]

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To my ear, Osywharf carries an echo of "Owsley" -
August Owsley Stanley III, described as the
"undisputed king of the illicit LSD trade" in Acid
Dreams:  The Complete Social History of LSD:  The CIA,
the Sixties, and Beyond, by Martin A. Lee and Bruce
Shlain.

Lew's hallucinations after failing to wash his hands
recall the legend of Dr. Albert Hofman's discovery of
the effects of LSD, after accidentally absorbing a
small dose through his skin, according to Lee and
Shlain. The "Beavers of the Brain" episode that
follows sounds like something out of an LSD trip,
those "ever-more-polycrystalline luminosities of
meaning" [183].

Osywharf also recalls Osbie Feel, a doper in Gravity's
Rainbow.


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