The hacker we call Bob

[pynchonoid]

The only thing anywhere near a "kiss and tell" book
about Pynchon is the JS screed, as first published in
Playboy then again as padded with email, and he
appears to be somebody Pynchon met by accident at
college.  

Given their inability to resist doing whatever it
takes to get publicity for their various projects, the
absence of "I [insert verb of choice here] Pynchon"
tales by the likes of Dylan et al indicates, to me at
least, that Pynchon didn't didn't do much if anything
with these big 60s names, otherwise what would stop
them from using such anecdotes as they go out on the
book and music CD and film promo circuit.


> It would be my probably not very acute  observation
> that, while high  
> culture often pays attention to, and goes gaga over,
> mass or pop  
> culture, the cases of the the reverse being true,
> through not  
> unknown, are the exception.
> 

Did somebody really suggest that a new album by Dylan
might as artistically significant as Pynchon's
upcoming novel?  No way.  No pop song or album has the
ability to communicate the depth and scope of
experience that a novel can communicate.  Apples and
oranges.



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