Everybody Must Get Stoned

[Joe Allonby]

Oddly enough, I just turned off side one of Blonde on Blonde and sat
down to read this.

I do not feel so all alone.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2009, at 11:58 AM, John Carvill wrote:
>
>>  I just think it sort of trivialises GR to say, oh, Pynchon wrote that
>> while he was stoned.
>
> Why? How?
>
> Gravity's Rainbow is a masterpiece, just as "Strawberry Fields Forever" is a
> masterpiece. How does John being constantly ripped while constructing
> Strawberry Fields trivialize the music? Sorry, I don't get it. Did you ever
> know any stoned artists, 'cause I sure have. I have every good reason to
> believe that there are passages in Pynchon's books that are included in
> spite of the author not really quite understanding what he came up with,
> just as I'm sure that Baudelaire might look at one of his poems and ask—"Did
> I write that?"—or Hendrix come up with the electric guitar equivalent of
> Beethoven's Eroica at Monterey Pop and then proceed to set his guitar on
> fire.
>
>