Pynchon mention in Dylan story

[pynchonoid]

Don't think twice, Bob 
Saturday July 12, 2003
The Guardian 

The saga of Bob Dylan's "Love and Theft" lyrics and
passages in a Japanese novel (How Dylan's lyrics
struck a chord, July 10) needs putting into
perspective. Dylan has always made free use of
quotation and allusion (biblical, literary, folk song,
etc). The album pushes this further. Its title (in
quotation marks) is from a book about minstrel shows;
the songs are a glorious pastiche of quotation -
Fitzgerald (Scott and Ella), Donne, Virgil, Paul
Robeson, etc.

The lines from Confessions of a Yakuza are one more
element in a complex puzzle. Pastiche and quotation
are hallmarks of contemporary fiction, as in Thomas
Pynchon or Salman Rushdie. Rushdie's novel, The Ground
Beneath Her Feet, contains a good 20 Dylan quotations
and allusions, not all identified. All writing is a
dialogue between texts. Anyone tempted to shout
"plagiarism" at Dylan should think twice. 

Christopher Rollason 
Metz, France 

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,996714,00.html>

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