DMZ research at the B.U. Pharmacy library

pivotal · 11 Nov YDAU + STANDING thread

• When: 11 November YDAU afternoon (the library trip); the DMZ research thread spans early-to-mid November
• What: Struck is the clique's library legman on the incredibly potent hallucinogen DMZ. Wet-haired after their P.M. runs, he and Pemulis blarney past the attendant at the B.U. School of Pharmacy and work the Reference stacks — and it is Struck who tracks down, off an obscure Digestive-Flora footnote, that DMZ leaves no G.C./M.S. signature (reading only as imbalanced yeast), and that its 1960s origin was inducing "transcendent experiences" in chronic alcoholics at Montreal's Verdun Protestant Hospital. Pemulis pencils him in from the outset as a possible helper on the titration/side-effects research. The congenital plagiarist is, ironically, the operation's best finder of other people's words.