The Drop Edge of Yonder: Rudy Wurlitzer Rides Nowhere Again
The Eastern Western
Cycles of injury and health, loss and discovery are themes in Drop Edge.
Yeah, be grateful for your wounds. They’re a catalyst toward something further. Unless you get dead.
There’s a particularly intense healing ceremony in the novel: “The medicine roared through their bodies in noxious waves until they sank on all fours, vomiting and heaving ... [they] wept and wept, haunted by the ... approaching shadow of ... death.” It reminded me of a description of that Amazonian drug Yage.
Ah, yes. Yage. Yeah, you should try that. You’ll like it. William Burroughs liked Yage a lot. I recommend it. If you’re lucky, it takes you to the edge of yourself. But it’s been a long time since I’ve been on that journey.
I was talking to a friend of mine about Yage, and he said, “Yeah, you can get that on eBay.”
Well, that’s the new world.
THE DROP EDGE OF YONDER | By RUDOLPH WURLITZER | Two Dollar Radio | 275 pages | $15 softcover
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