In Carol Polsgrove's book "It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, but Didn't We Have Fun? : Surviving the '60s With Esquire's Harold Hayes," there's an anecdote about Candida Donadio's "psychic abilities," to the effect that on the phone with Thomas Pynchon, she sensed the presence of small insects (ants?) parading near him and warned him not to go on the attack. d.