Bob Dylan and Close Encounters of the Pynchon kind.

[Joe Allonby]

So I was in rural East Calais Vermont installing a piano in a ramshackle old
farmhouse at the end of a dirt road. The owner was a nice enough guy in his
early sixties named Howard.. While we were discussing where he wqnted his
new piano and where we were taking his old one, the phone rang. He took a
call from "Bob" who was in Montpelior doing a "performance" and wanted to
meet for dinner before the show. Even from across the room I could recognize
the famous voice coming through the phone.

"I couldn't help noticing, but were you just on the phone with Bob Dylan?"

"Well, I don't like to drop names but yeah."

"Do you mind if I ask how you know Bob Dylan?"

"We're old friends. We were introduced many years ago by my literary agents
husband. They're good friends."

"OK, I'm going to take a wild guess that your literary agent is Melanie
Jackson."

"Yes. How did you know that?"

Howard Norman and I then sat down and had a great conversation about his two
good friends, Bob Dylan and Tom Pynchon. He had a bunch of anecdotes about
them both. He gave me several of his books and ....... a pristine original
paperback pamphlet of "Mortality and Mercy in Vienna".
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