Bob Dylan and Close Encounters of the Pynchon kind.

Richard Ryan richardryannyc at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 12 16:45:16 CDT 2007


This reminds me of the charming one act play by Sam
Shepard, "True Dylan", which reads like (and possibly
is) the transcriptof a actual free-associative
conversation between Shepard and the Bobster.  

One longs to be a tiny little shit-bird on the wall
when Pynchon and Dylan fire up the bong and start
passing it back and forth.  



--- David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Joe,
> 
> This is you describing your experience?
> 
> If you could give us an account of these anecdotes
> about Pynchon, I'm
> sure we'd be very grateful.
> 
> David Morris
> 
> On 7/12/07, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > So I was in rural East Calais Vermont installing a
> piano in a ramshackle old
> [...]
> > 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.
> 




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