Re: mild drug SPOILER Re: other stoned detectives? Re: finished IV…

[Joseph Tracy]

I too find it a little incredible that Doc functions as well as he  
does as a p.i. while stoned on powerful weed.  Couldn't do it meself,  
don't really care for the stuff, preferring Irish drinkables and wine  
from dry regions, but have known a few who seem less functionally  
disabled by weed. Perhaps real smart folk, like Pynchon, end up at  
about Doc's level of stoner functionality. Doesn't he claim to have  
smoked a lot while penning GR?  Doc is from another planet and of  
higher density, no?  It does seem that the whole getting stoned thing  
in IV fails to be convincing, conversations should go more askew ,  
threads of thought disintegrate and flash back into consciousness,  
inner sense of time and logical perspective distort.
On Aug 11, 2009, at 3:03 AM, Carvill John wrote:

>
>> You can take a
>> weekend seminar over at Oaksterdam University -- affiliated with the
>> Blue Sky in Oakland -- coffeeshop and learn how to be a  
>> "budtender" at
>> a licensed cannabis club, how to grow it in your garage or backyard,
>> how to make "concentrates" and thus join what I've heard described as
>> a small but growing army of new wave artisanal hashmakers centered
>> here in the SF Bay Area, how to cook with it and prepare various  
>> kinds
>> of "edibles".
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> Wow. Education *can* be fun, kids!
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> I liked your description of Doc as a likely 'wake and bake' type. I  
> know exactly the type you mean, but those guys tend to stumble  
> around in a mental fug. Doc does stumble around, but the way the  
> book reads, it's like he would stumble around like that with or  
> without weed. This is really just a thread of thought, not an  
> argument or point of view. How stoned is Doc really, how much of  
> the time? Like everyone else, I was set to expect a 'stoned  
> detective' and he is often described as rolling a joint and smoking  
> it, but how many specific instances are there, in the narrative, of  
> Doc being affected by weed in the sense that he finds it difficult  
> to think or operate normally? Yes, you can get in your car whilst  
> stoned, and drive to the supermarket to sate your mucnchies, but  
> can you go out on a case and interview suspects etc?
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>
> As I say, just speculation which has floated into my (sadly non- 
> stoned) head while reading IV a second time.
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