IV: potsmoking Doc SPOILER ALERT

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Otto:
 
> Is it really true that all the paranoia in IV "clearly" is a result of
> "all the pot being smoked and all the LSD being dropped"?

No, I should probably amend that to "a lot of the paranoia" - enthusiasm
got the better of me for a second. But I would still stand by my assertion 
that paranoia is very explicitly tied together with the consumption of drugs
in the novel.
 
> Isn't there a definite paranoia on the "straight" side (which isn't
> straight at all, but hooked on booze, tv, money or "power", isn't it?)
> too, a paranoia of a deadly, cultish hippie-ism à la Manson.
 
Yes, I think you're absolutely right. As I wrote in a later post, paranoia
is not merely a good force in IV (or the rest of Pynchon's work).
 
Tore
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