Bob Dylan and Close Encounters of the Pynchon kind.

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

 Ya Sam 
> I think that in the future there will be published a huge biography of P,
> maybe even several biographies. Just my hunch, but writers of that stature
> just can't escape this fate. Sooner or later it will happen. Better later,
> imho, as I also have a hunch when it might happen...
>

based on?

some kind of cache of documents at the Morgan library???

...all his first drafts -

"A roaring comes across the Channel" 
(big red redaction)

"Earlier than usual one morning, Lloyd Bieler woke
up repeating his Coue mantra: every day I become
a better and better insurance adjuster"
(penciled in the margin: NO NO NO)

"Chapter one: in which Denny Murrain, a human
kite, reaches the end of his string"
(paper clipped to a note from Ms Donadio:
"Thomas, where are you going with this metaphor?)