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is there some sort of Infinite Jest reference in this scene, the
catatonic and zombiefied by their own indulgences

On 10/9/09, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Hey!  Guess what's in this grass?"
> "Nothing!"
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> The zombie revelation/paranoia occurs just after Doc smoke this killer
> weed.  It seems to be the catalyst for this new POV.
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> 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.
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