This story was pretty 'groovy'! It really shows how social drugs can be within a society. Whether it is because people are gathering together to break the law or that they all want to kick back and reach a higher state, they all have something in common. Weed especially, is a drug that you do with other people. You call your friends up, they bring some friends, and you all get high together. What is interesting about it is that you can smoke with anybody. They don't necessarily have to be your friend, or even someone you know. It could just be someone that wants to get high, just like yourself. That's how this author felt. Although he had so much in common with Pynchon, he did not find it absolutely necessary to share those feelings with him. He was happy 'communicating' through the drugs. It is interesting how drug use in the sixties still remains true today. People continue to smoke weed communally as a way of communicating. It is a means of nonverbal interaction between everyone involved.
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