isn't it strange?

[rich]

that when Doc first meets Hope (we know its March 1970) to discuss the
recently OD'd Coy and the topic of the Boards comes up and the quip
from Rolling Stone that they will make Jimi Hendrix want to listen to
surf music again, one can only be reminded of Hendrix's death by
overdose (sort've) in Sept 1970.

are these little nudges by Pynchon pointing towards hippie stoner
bleak endings?

reading IV again these things keep popping up.

interesting

rich