Pynchon wrote in his defense...we think they are some kind of friends

[Mark Kohut]

(I have a memory of reading that he lent TRP a book, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Eentury Philosophers, but I have never been able to find that online again)

But, what of McEwan here might come out of TRP, or out of conversation with TRP?  

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/06/ian-mcewan-solar