ATDTDA (3) Dynamitic mania, 80-86

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

        I’m with Robin in believing that it’s pretty likely
        that Pynchon has been involved in some outlawry of his
        own (I’m not saying he’s blown anything up, I have no
        idea), and if not, is well acquainted with some who
        would deserve the name.  I'd bet he’s well acquainted
        with outlawry and its discontents, and I think that
        his expression of this is one of the real successes in
        AtD (I'd argue the same of Vineland, too).

        -Chris

I'd be looking in the general direction of chemical know-how 
and potential routes of distribution, Betcha Pynchon would too.
Time and place, set and setting and geographic locations
of '60's hotspots come to mind. The author's been offering up 
boatloads of info on these particular topics from the get-go.
Anyway, the routes of activists and underground couriers
of all stripes cross and re-cross everywhere, kinda in a 
"39 Steps", from cloak and dagger to croak and stagger fashion. 
One should not cross out autobiographical possibilities in
Gravity's Rainbow, or any other of his books for that matter.