IVIV: (14) Dope & Longing in Las Vegas

[Robin Landseadel]

On Nov 10, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> a) the rejection, fun-making, examination, of the "elect-preterite"
> distinction throughout Mr Pynchon's works, consistently standing aside
> from that philosophy, that sort of binary thinking, line-drawing,
> condemning, Puritanical, anti-hedonistic mindset

	"What, I should only trust good people? man, good people get
	bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil
	once in a while, it makes no more or less sense. I mean I
	wouldn't give odds either way.