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[David Morris]

"Hey!  Guess what's in this grass?"
"Nothing!"

The zombie revelation/paranoia occurs just after Doc smoke this killer
weed.  It seems to be the catalyst for this new POV.

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> Notice on this page that when Doc is realizing - that every one of these
> Boards was a zombie, undead and unclean.-  Denis materializes from someplace
> and answers Doc's thoughts " Dead and clean  is okay?"
>
> extrasensory chops, everyone watching dark shadows, paranoia filling the
> space, from pot ?from real world? from a loss of inner life,loss of contact
> with real people?  Everyone starts to look like zombies and then the mind
> probe from Denis starts a movement toward action,  bit of light, verbally
> assessing situation,  the munchies, Jade drops in and they all head out.  I
> wonder if Pynchon is giving us some of the reasons he refuses publicity,
> describing his own sense of what publicity  and fame does to those he has
> seen.
>
> I sense that the dark shadows and parallel worlds are self reflective, the
> writer observing the effect of a fictional device he has employed and seeing
> something a bit more macabre than he intended.