CoL49: The Pros & Cons of LSD, Time 1964

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Laura:
 
> Some might consider it a nit-picking biographical invasion into Pynchon's privacy, but his drug use 
> seems relevant to his writing and probably contributes in part to the change in focus from his three 
> early novels and the later three. Jerry Garcia's use of the term "ordered chaos" to describe the Acid 
> Test calls to mind Pynchon's description of San Narciso (ordered swirl).
 
- or the "soft, elegant chaos" Oedipa walks in on in the back stage of the Tank Theatre. This combination
of accident and design, order and chaos (or 'chaosmos' with Joyce) has been a favourite trope of Pynchon's 
all along - we even find it in his liner notes to Lotion's 'Nobody's Cool', where he writes of their 
"feedback-stricken, edge-of-chaos guitar passages". The term 'edge-of-chaos' is also found in complexity theory, 
where it denotes just such an "ordered chaos".
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