“The classic hustle is still famous, even today, for the cold purity of its execution: bring opium from India, introduce it into China...create an inelastic demand for that shit, get China to make it illegal, then sucker China into a couple-three disastrous wars over the right of your merchants to sell opium, which by now you are describing as sacred.” #thomaspynchon #gravitysrainbow #poppy #papaversomniferum #breadseedpoppy #opiumpoppy #urbangardening #urbanbeautification #oregon #growyourown