Re: VL-IV (15): Ché For Children, pages 325/327

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I think Pynchon would put alcohol in the marijuana and psychedelics group (thinking of Slothrop and that beer-drinking game).

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>

>I'm not so sure here about your comment concerning the shadow side of  
>drugs in Vineland. Pynchon seems to separate marijuana and  
>psychedelics away  from Coke and Speed, Alcohol and all the rest of  
>the ways of getting rilly, rilly wasted.
>
>On the other hand, that fatal complicity that you speak of is directly  
>on point. So much of that complicity is unwitting—Pynchon points to  
>the creation of the consumer species, a new electronic species created  
>via the Tube, the creation of a zombie nation.