The Crying of Lot 49: Chapter 1
Mapping the Zone: A Thomas Pynchon discussion podcast
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The Importance of Drugs in the Counterculture Movement
I spent a lot of high school and I still go back to it every now and then I had a fascination with with counterculture movement like Abby Hoffman and Bobby Seal and those guys. Pierce sits somewhere in the middle of that between the Manson and Leary thing where you know there's the bad people doing bad things for bad reasons or selfish reasons and the good guys who had the right intentions but couldn't ever get anything off the ground. That guy who's working to bring people like um like mucho and and some of those other you know how I wouldn't say much is too much counterculture but he just trying to be out there for himself.
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