IV Chapter 17 Thoughts

[David Morris]

Carvill, John wrote:
>
>Tracy:
> << There is a fair amount of evidence that P was a heavy smoker at this time, but he managed to write one of the  greatest and most dauntingly layered novels of the century. >>
>
> Right. But I would guess that he spent the majority of actual writing time completely straight.

If I were to guess (and that's all any of us are doing), I would say
he wrote it under many influences, including LSD.  And I'm sure he
re-wrote and edited all of it many times.  "Most dauntingly layered"
is so correct, and the free-flowing and wildly divergent connections
seem to me at least partly inspired by the lubricants of weed and
acid.  I know that the 4th time I read GR, my then occasional tokes
before reading allowed me to find connections within the text I'd
never seen before...

David Morris