"Did I ever tell you," Pig said, "the story about the coke sacker, the cork soaker and the sock tucker."
—from Pynchon's "V." (1963)
I love that Pynchon admitted he was so stoned writing Gravity's Rainbow that he doesn't even remember writing most of it. The American counterculture writers of the 60s and early 70s were awesome. No more of those. No everyone's a fucking prig.