IV Playlist - LA Times blog

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Carvill, John wrote:
> Another mini-mystery? Does this claim to be a list compiled *by*
> Pynchon, or just *from* IV?

I'm starting to tilt toward the latter option.

> A-and, still, even after all these years, no Dylan mention in any
> Pynchon book. Unless that reference to 'Point Dume' is a sly nod to
> Bob's onion-domed Malibu mansion.

Perhaps we can apply Borges here?

"'In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?'

I thought a moment and replied, 'The word *chess*.'"

"The Garden of Forking Paths". Trans. Donald A. Yates.
http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lt/lt204/forking_paths.htm


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