Dear Tim,

[David Kipen]

Fellow Pynchomanes and friends, did you see this?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/movies/my-psychedelic-love-story-review.amp.html

Could Joanna Harcourt-Smith’s ambiguous affair with Timothy Leary, and her
disappearance into the witness-protection program, have helped inspire
Frenesi?


A happy thanksgiving to all,
David

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 7:54 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was just thinking of a wiki like the other ones you've done beyond
> Pynchon, maybe. On this song but like the Pynchon, Infinite Jest ones
> where listeners could cite the allusions and comment on the meaning of
> lines, images, etc...
>
> I hear it as a dirge for the idea of the ideal America, embodied in JFK the
> Camelot King,  with buried Faisher King and his lands and heart
> of the people and other godsend Bough stuff....some GB stuff influenced TRP
> to, it seems, sometimes thru Eliade.....towers, etc.
>
> One of the OP Henry Adams' works which TRP surely read is *The Degradation
> of the Democratic Ideal. *Has some physics ideas of the time---and Adams
> went big into History with them. Entropy for example.
>
> Keep On Keeping On.
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 10:24 AM Tim Ware <tim at hyperarts.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Mark. I guess I don’t really understand what you’re asking me to
> > do. Actually, only Dylan could’ve done this song and he did.
> >
> > I wasn’t aware Dylan and Pynchon were/are friends. How is this known?
> >
> > Stay well. Strange days indeed.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
> > *..:: **Tim Ware | HyperArts** ::..*
> > T: 510.339.6084  E: tim at hyperarts.com
> > 201 4th Street , Suite 404 . Oakland CA 94607-4372
> > www.hyperarts.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mar 28, 2020, at 4:03 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I hope you are more than well during this Love in the Time of Corona. And
> > all you love are too.
> > I was going to write you a real Thank You letter before now and send
> > something as I always think about and still use
> > the Pynchon wiki.....but, then the world exploded and turned inward and
> > made us all have to help each other or die
> > inside.
> >
> > So, I am sure you have learned of and listened to Dylan's first new song
> > in eight years. I know you don't waste [pun intend] your time
> > with the Plist as some of us do but i did just post my exuberant
> > appreciation and it led me to this thought:
> >
> > Only you could do this song, and we know Pynchon and Dylan are (or were)
> > some kind of friends, some rough justice online now
> > by making it part of your still-alive wiki.....explication and
> > associations like any masterpiece, I suggest.
> >
> > Anyway, if you cannot for any reason, please take care.
> >
> > Mark Kohut
> >
> >
> >
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Pssst! The New York Times just called my new book "ebullient and often
moving":
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/books/review-dear-los-angeles-david-kipen.html