IV Playlist - LA Times blog

[Joe Allonby]

According to Howard Norman, they are in fact friends

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Carvill John<johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Ineed, yes, the presence of absence, a variant of (or alternative to) the old 'hiding in plain sight' trick, eh?
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> 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.
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> 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
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>> 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?
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>> I'm starting to tilt toward the latter option.
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>>> 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.
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>> Perhaps we can apply Borges here?
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>> "'In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?'
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>> I thought a moment and replied, 'The word *chess*.'"
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>> "The Garden of Forking Paths". Trans. Donald A. Yates.
>> http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lt/lt204/forking_paths.htm
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>> Heikki
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