Pynchon's reply

[Robin Landseadel]

On May 20, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:

> I remember really liking it when it came out. It seemed so current,  
> so 60s.
>
> JFK assassination conspiracy theorists were everywhere.  But another  
> hot topic was the idea that psychosis and paranoia might actually be  
> curative. Liang and that bunch. Oedipa sort of stood for anti- 
> oedipus before its time.

Very good point. LSD was seriously considered as therapy in 1964. That  
thread takes up a lot of space in Lot 49.