Bob Dylan and Close Encounters of the Pynchon kind.

[Daniel Harper]

Nope, can't say I've yet had that experience. Closest I got was when a guy
at the store where I used to work was buying ATD, and I must have come
across like some random crazy person, "Yes, read this! All the way through!
It's brilliant! Then come back for the rest, here's the wiki and the P-list
if you need help..."

Maybe I should start an organization called Slothrop's Witnesses, going
door-to-door handing out pamphlets...

On 7/14/07, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >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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...the insanely, endlessly diddling play of a chemist whose molecules are
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--Daniel Harper
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