CoL49 (5) Sidney [Genghis] Cohen

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jul 6, 2009, at 12:35 PM, David Payne wrote:

>
> 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.

Although the idea of postage stamps really being blotter acid would be  
a cool subtext for the Tristero system's stamps, blotter didn't appear  
until after LSD became illegal, sometime in the early seventies.

Maybe Pynchon was just being prescient.