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[Robin Landseadel]

On Jul 25, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:

> The magic first opening of the
> New Book let my eyes fall on the first line of page 7, where the  
> italics
> say "2001: A Space Odyssey" ... Pynchon must really love this movie  
> ---
> you remember that scene from Vineland, where Hector places a Ganja  
> monolith
> in Zoyd's house and Zoyd asks: What is this? '2001: A Space Odyssey?'
> whereupon Hector, good punchline: no doubt, answers: 'Looks more like
> '20 000 Years in Singsing'?

While 2001's finale feels like an advertisement for LSD, Kubrick  
sez . . .

	"I believe that drugs are basically of more use to the audience
	than to the artist. I think that the illusion of oneness with the
	universe, and absorption with the significance of every object in
	your environment, and the pervasive aura of peace and
	contentment is not the ideal state for an artist. It tranquilizes the
	creative personality, which thrives on conflict and on the clash
	and ferment of ideas. The artist's transcendence must be within
	his own work; he should not impose any artificial barriers
	between himself and the mainspring of his subconscious. One
	of the things that's turned me against LSD is that all the people I
	know who use it have a peculiar inability to distinguish
	between things that are really interesting and stimulating and
	things that appear to be so in the state of universal bliss that the
	drug induces on a "good" trip. They seem to completely lose
	their critical faculties and disengage themselves from some of
	the most stimulating areas of life. Perhaps when everything is
	beautiful, nothing is beautiful."

http://pages.prodigy.com/kubrick/kubquot.htm