IVIV (1) Glen Charlock

[Dave Monroe]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> "paranoia alert"
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia
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> E.g., ...
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> http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Paranoia/Connectedness
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity's_Rainbow#Plot_Summary
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> The Paranoids
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> http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Paranoids
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> Proverbs for Paranoids
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> http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/paranoid.htm
> http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=P#proverbs
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> Scientists Are Learning How Weed Causes Paranoia
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> http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/chem-lab-the-sc/
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> Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon
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> http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/agordon/pynchon.htm

As for Pynchon's paranoia, Hall said it wasn't exceptional given the era.

"You have to put it into the context of the time," Hall explained.
"People were doing drugs. If the police back then pulled you over and
you didn't have a draft card, you were arrested on the spot, probably
beaten. All of us were paranoid. I just thought he was smart for being
that way."

Pynchon's landlord had a different, less sinister explanation for
Pynchon's obsession with privacy.

"I think the reason he was so private was because he was a bad
stutterer," Guy said. "Around us, he didn't stutter, but it was really
bad around people he didn't know."

http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html