Against the Day ..after Inherent Vice

[Ian Livingston]

And the trail leads home to roost.

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From a history tome in Google Books:
> ..."it is Mexico's Medelh'n. Chinese
> immigrants brought the opium poppy in the late 1800s, and marijuana grows nicely ... "
>
> From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 12:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Against the Day ..after Inherent Vice
>
> Hm. The drug trade was introduced into China by the East India
> Company, and its young friends from America, in the course of
> commercial trade among the cantons when those agencies were working
> subversively to "open" China. The EIC had populations enslaved in
> India and Burma growing the opium the Company then used to get the
> Chinese dockworkers and merchants addicted. And thus began the Opium
> Wars of the 1840s....
>
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Chick's father could not buy Mississippi because of some "Chinese
>> fooforaw' ---that Chinese Consortium based in Tijuana, Mexico....
>>
>> Hint of start of addictive drug trade ala Chinese Fang in IV?
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> --
> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
> creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
> trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
> of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
> than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant