CoL49 (5) Sidney [Genghis] Cohen

[David Payne]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 (11:00:48 -0700), Robin (robinlandseadel at comcast.net) wrote:

> [...] Whatever else is going on in CoL49, JFK simply is
> not the first thing that comes to mind—LSD is.
 
Sorry to be a slow learner, but the lightbulb just lit. 
 
Postage stamps symbolizing LSD? Both made in sheets; remove a small square and place it on the tongue. 
 
In the context of the novel, stamps reveal Gnostic-like insights, open a new world (or perhaps the "new world" is just the truth of the old world revealed).
 
And perhaps a dark side of obsession (vs when you get the message, hang up), as Oed moves away from her previous life, becoming gradually isolated, moving from fidelity to casual sex to friendship to talking to strangers to just watching ... devoid of meaningful human relationships.
 
And then there's the government-controlled production threatened by counterfeits, the emergence of an underground that's dispossed, both downtrodden and at times mafia-esqe?
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