CoL49 (5) Sidney [Genghis] Cohen

[rich]

Orwell:  good prose is a like a window pane

On 7/7/09, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Robin:
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>> 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.
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>> Maybe Pynchon was just being prescient.
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> O-or maybe he BROUGHT IT INTO BEING, like von Göll and that Schwarzkommando!
> M-maybe it is his mission "to sow in the Zone seeds of reality" (GR, 388).
> Remember how those 'stamps' are described in Lot 49: "thousands of little
> colored windows into deep vistas of space and time" (Lot 49, 45). Does that
> just sound like innocent stamps to y'all? Surely it is no coincidence that
> another term for LSD is "windowpanes" - eh?
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> Hum, hum, howbeit,--
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