bookhater17’s Reviews > Against the Day > Status Update

“‘But if you look at the history, modern chemistry only starts coming in to replace alchemy around the same time capitalism really gets going. Strange, eh?’ … ‘…instead of turning lead into gold, they could take poor people's sweat and turn it into greenbacks, and save that lead for enforcement purposes.’”

I love how every Pynchon novel has a part about how chemists are worse than Hitler