IV Playlist - LA Times blog

[Carvill John]

Ineed, yes, the presence of absence, a variant of (or alternative to) the old 'hiding in plain sight' trick, eh?
 
 
 
Still, either Pynchon actually is friends with Bob - and they both guard their privacy in varying ways - and therefore doesn't want people to know about their friendship; or, perhaps equally plausible, Pynchon still resents Dylan for Dylan's behaviour towards Richard Farina, and Dylan's survival of his motorbike crash.

 
Yes, I am fully aware that it's only me who continues to find the 'Does Dylan know Pynchon' question fascinating.
 
 

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> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:31:41 +0300
> From: hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: IV Playlist - LA Times blog
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
> Heikki
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