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HE GOT AROUND: Pynchon makes an offbeat cameo in Peter Ames Carlin’s recent biography, “Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson.” According to Carlin, Pynchon visited Wilson’s Southern California house in the late 1960s with a friend and “sat in stunned, unhappy silence while the nervous, stoned pop star — who had dragged him into his then-new Arabian tent to get high — kept kicking over the oil lamp he was trying to light.” Wilson was apparently afraid of Pynchon, and Pynchon was shy. An onlooker observed: “Neither of them really said a word all night long. It was one of the strangest scenes I’d ever seen in my life.”

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“Brian was kind of afraid of [Thomas] Pynchon, because he’d heard he was an Eastern intellectual establishment genius. And Pynchon wasn’t very articulate. He was gonna sit there and let you talk while he listened. So neither of them said a word all night long. It was one of the strangest scenes I’d ever seen in my life.” – JULES SIEGEL on introducing novelist THOMAS PYNCHON to Brian Wilson, ca. ’67 SMiLE sessions. (p. 103)