Difference between revisions of "Dope in Gravity's Rainbow"

Latest revision as of 19:47, 15 December 2006

cultivating pharmaceutical plants on Pirate's rooftop, 5

Slothrop on Sodium Amytal, 60-71

"gage" smoke, 62

laudanum, 69

nitrous oxide, 78

Amanita muscaria, 93, 112, 533, 748

Benzedrine, 142, 686

Hieropons, 152, 683

"the latest drugs inside the many little table drawers" 152

Oneirine, 166, 463-64

"Where the poppy, and cannibis and coca grow full and green, and not to the colors and style of death, as do ergot and agaric" 317

Pervitin, 328, 522

"German dope in amazing profusion, Wimpe the jinni of the West holding them up" 345

opium, 346-47, 602

"inelastic Need" 346

"the tears of the poppy" 347

Oneirine, 348

Methoneirine, 348

killing pain without addiction, 348

"certain drugs. . .make things amazingly clear" 352

marijuana ("vapor blossoms resinous and summery"), 365

"The Doper's Dream" 369

hashish, 353, 370, 390, 434, 442, 649, 493, 652

"the green Hershey Bar" 370

heroin, 370

cocaine, 375, 452 (in Coca Cola), 463, 481, 517 ("'Cocaine—or cards?' (an old movie line the gunsels loved to use that summer)" — "Cocaine—or cards?" is an intertitle card from Fritz Lang's 1922 film "Mabuse, der Spieler". The question was posed to Wenk (in disguise) as he enters a secret nightclub to face "the great Unknown" in a showdown across a poker table.), 594, 595, 599, 604, 621, 622, 683

"time modulation particular to Oneirine" 389

ephedrine (for nasal congestion), 405

kif, 437, 625

"A little something from Morocco" 438

papyromancy, 442

Gustav and Bummer's analysis of the hashish, 442

Springer on Sodium Amytal, 511-14, 746

Pavel sniffing Leunagasolin, 523-24

"chewed too much o' that veird cectus [...] should hev smucked that nice veed I had, I tuld you--" 534

peyote, 535

Osbie "chewing spices, smoking reefers, and shooting cocaine" 536

Killer Weed campaign, 581

"Greetings, gate, need an opiate?" 594

Codeine, 594

bhang, 594

Säure's elaborate cocaine taking, 620

"West African narcotic herb" 637

herb smokers, 638

"amphetamine enthusiast" 640

"all of those snowy-white crystals" 646

"hashish hush puppies" 649

morphine, 652, 686

"energy for plants to grow, illegal plants, inside closets" 653

"dopefiend's version of wishing on an evening star" 685

"My Doper's Cadenza" 685-86

"Dope never gave you immortality. You hadda come back every time. . .into a dying hunk of smelly meat!" 699

"Opiates of the people" 701

"the Red Doper" 719

"dope-perfume" 720

addiction, 722

"fresh coca leaves" 740

"tonight they will shoot wine" 743

Kazoo hashpipe, 745

New Dope - "a brand new kind of dope that [renders you] incapable of ever telling anybody what it's like [or] where to get any" 745

"optimum hashpipe design" 745

morning-glory seeds, 746

Thorazine, 753