The Crying of Lot 49: Chapter 1
Mapping the Zone: A Thomas Pynchon discussion podcast
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The Dark Side of the Hippie Movement
Pension repeatedly agrees with people like Timothy leery in principle but not at all in execution where he does want people to expand their mind maybe not through drugs but you know challenge themselves and see things from a different perspective. He just doesn't believe that any of the movements have done thatYeah well I did interpret the the part about hilarious is drug drug experiment I wrote down MK ultra in the margin which is something that's gotten into an inherent vice in fine land yep um But it took seemed a lot of other people it took until the mid to late 70s for them to realize how the supposedly utopic nature of of the hippie movement actually had a pretty pretty severe dark side to it
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