Notice too, that Shasta drops the subject pronous in several statements here: "[He] Thinks he's hallucinating." "[I] Need your help, Doc." "[I] Just spent an hour..." Notice how Pynchon "decomposes and discomposes his own style" here. Shasta begins a non-interrroagative sentence with "Is" for example. She talks like Zoyd's friend, Van Meter.