Bob Dylan and Close Encounters of the Pynchon kind.

[Ya Sam]

>When I tell people I'm reading Pynchon, their response is either 1) a blank
>state or 2) "Holy shit." When I tell them I'm doing it just for the sheer
>enjoyment of it... well... <laughs>
>

Have you had this rare experience when you bump into somebody (I mean in 
offlist life!) who digs Pynchon just the way you do and that's like a 
Masonic handshake, or whatever, because this is a person you could talk for 
hours with, as the ice has been broken by Pynch?
It goes like this: Skeptically: 'Have you heard about a certain writer 
called Thomas Pynchon?' 'HAVE I heard about PYNCHON??? I've read GR three 
times, it's my bedtable book!" 'Absolutely, man, he's my favourite writer 
too!" etc. I had this conversation once, was doing some administrative 
side-job and there was a guy, an Oxford graduate, who was mightily surprised 
that I not only knew about Pynchon, but was also a hardcore fan.

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