Pharmacology autodidact: the muscimole colloquium and the annulation lectures

texture · UNDATED (standing, YDAU); the colloquium mid-Oct-Nov

• When: UNDATED (standing expertise); the Big-Buddy muscimole "colloquium" and the Arslanian annulation lecture fall in the Oct-Nov YDAU range
• What: Pemulis runs his Big-Buddy powwows "like a kind of colloquium," delivering from memory a precise pharmacology of muscimole / Amanita muscaria — dosage, potency ("two to three times as potent as psilocybin"), the fly-agaric's aboriginal use in "southern Québec and the Great Concavity" — to bored little kids, his laptop screen reading METHOXYLATED BASES FOR PHENYLKYLAMINE MANIPULATION. His science standing is institutional: Tex Watson "some terms gets Pemulis to guest-lecture" the annulation/combustion survey "when he and Pemulis are in a period of détente" (scene 070), and in scene 114 he ad-libs a full, accurate "thumbnail lecture" on annular fusion and the Concavity's toxic-cycle to the blindfolded Idris Arslanian. This expertise is what makes the DMZ project (event 13) his to run.