COL49 - Chap 1: Oedipa says no to drugs

[Michael Bailey]

a long time ago, Mark Kohut  wrote:
>
> Oedipa does not trust Hilarious, and has reasons even mentioned in the text. He is a joke. And he is what Laura
> says as well.
>
> His 'bridge inward' is P's take on THAT----a joke if attempted thru LSD, I think he believed even then.....
> (even if he believed in trying/taking LSD for other reasons).......
>

I've been trying to suppress the urge to disagree
but, well, I sort of like Dr Hilarius.  Not what he did in the war,
obviously, but his repentance and trying to change.

Further: the bridge inward -- why does everybody think that means
toward a solipsistic inner space?  The bridge inward could mean toward
a sanctuary of some sort, and since it's a group project it's bound to
involve interaction.

Finally: my friend's older sister was one of the (lucky) ones who
actually had her psychiatrist prescribe LSD back in the 60s.  She had
a quietness about her and an interesting aura.

I'm not saying that Oed was wrong to reject his offerings of drugs -
.I think that the various experiences she's about to have will
actually change her more than the LSD would have anyway - but perhaps
her automatic rejection and fear of the strange is part of the
syndrome that keeps her in the imaginary tower --- the good trips that
Mucho recounts suggest she might enjoy the acid if she could get jiggy
with it



-- 
"For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as.
For the moment anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are." - GR, p
136