The hacker we call Bob

[John Carvill]

> Against The Day (Nov. 21) = Modern Times (Aug. 29)


Aye indeed. I've raised the issue of the interesting connections between
Dylan & Pynchon before but, unlike the high heels of Rachel Owlglass,
they always seem to fall down between the X's in the p-list's grating. 

For starters there's the Richard Farina/Baez/Bob nexus, which raises the
intriguing question of whether Bob and Thomas Ruggles ever met (surely
they musta?); there's Jules Siegel's claim that Pynchon thought Jules
would be better off interviewing the Beach Boys than Dylan, which might
be related to some resentment Pynchon felt towards Dylan due to Dylan's
treatment of Baez.

Then there's the curious omission of Dylan's name from Vineland, given
how many other 60s icons get a mention, coupled with what some have
claimed are a number of Dylan references in that book. One which I
noticed being the phrase 'toil and blood': 


'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud
I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"

Bob Dylan, Shelter from the storm



"What we cry, what we contend for, in our world of toil and blood, it
all lies beneath the notice of the hacker we call God"
Vineland, p91


A-and, Pynchon had a blurb for his new book posted on Amazon, then
withdrawn, then reinstated. Dylan's record company put out some sound
samples from his new album, then withdrew them......

Cheers
JC






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