CoL49 (5) Sidney [Genghis] Cohen

[rich]

there's so much of that kinda stuff in Pynchon--did he make the
connection or inadvertently pointing to such connections unbeknownst
(don't the buddhists have that whole bit about non-action, wu-wei?) or
just lucky or some sort of communal illusion

is it the redeemer or is it just gas?

rich

On 7/6/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.
>