The hacker we call Bob

[Carvill John]

Yes I know we should take Jules with a pinch of salt, if at all. I've been 
back through the archives, and read 'Lineland' and all that. But that's a 
whole other can o' worms.

Not to be argumentative, but what 'somebody' told you, Doug, seems way, way 
off to me. I dunno what you intended by 'these 60s celebrities' but it 
sounds super-disdainful to me, as if Dylan was the Paris Hilton of his day! 
And the implication that these shallow 60s celebs, these cultural no-marks, 
wouldn't know Pynchon and if they did they'd want to show off about it is 
totally screwy. For one thing, if they were such no-marks then they wouldn't 
know that Pynchon was someone to show off, surely? He's not exactly 
mainstream after all. On the other hand, which of these celebs have 
published their memoirs? Dylan has put out 'Chronicles Volume One', a kind 
of 'memoir', but I don't think he covered the period in question, and it's 
not likely that an acquaintance with Pynchon would be something significiant 
enough for him to mention. Dylan never makes much of any authors, he mostly 
goes on aout old folk or blues singers.

ANyway whether or not Dylan knew Pynchon (through Farina) is clearly not a 
topic of much interest on the plist; certainly it can't compete with the 
'who drinkis most alcohol' thread. I'll have to seek out the Hadju book that 
Pynchon did the interview for....

By the way, I'm pretty sure 60s celeb John Cale knows Pynchon, but I can't 
think of any reason he'd be 'talking openly' about it.

>I'd caution against accepting JS's reports without
>corroboration. He's demonstrated, conclusively, that
>he has a major axe to grind re Pynchon.
>
>Somebody told me once that if any of these 60s
>celebrities - Dylan, et al - had done stuff with
>Pynchon they'd be talking openly about it by now in
>their memoirs, the conclusion being that they didn't
>know him so they don't have anything to say about him
>now.
>