Everybody Must Get Stoned

[John Carvill]

>> I wrote:
>>   I just think it sort of trivialises GR to say, oh, Pynchon wrote that
>>  while he was stoned.

> Robin:
> 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?

Ok, two main points:

(a) 'Constructing' Strawberry Fields Forever, no matter how great a
track that is, is a very different proposition to writing Gravity's
Rainbow;
(b) John Lennon was not tripping whilst recording Strawberry Fields Forever.

> Sorry, I don't
> get it

True.

<<  I =20
have every good reason to believe that there are passages in Pynchon's =20=

books that are included in spite of the author not really quite =20
understanding what he came up with >>

Be that as it may, it doesn't mean he wrote them whilst stoned. You
have 'reason to believe'! What does that mean? We've all read the same
Pynchon books, articles, biographical fragments, p-list archives,
Jules Siegel's reminiscences, etc.

> Did you ever know any stoned artists, 'cause I sure have.

Please, can you drop the 'I know and you don't' tone? Any chance of that?