Jules talking trash about Pynchon

[Doug Millison]

(I failed to mail this to the p-list as well as to Jules earlier)

At 11:58 AM 7/7/97, Jules Siegel wrote:
>Smoking pot doesn't affect long-term memory, but short-term memory -- very
>short, as in temporarily losing the thread of the current topic.

So, let me see if I've gotten this straight. Pot could have a negative
impact on short-term memory -- you could forget the details of something
that happened recently, but the long-term memory of those details would
remain intact? Extraordinary!

Being a well-trained reporter doesn't make any of us immune to the common
vagaries of memory and recollection. It can certainly make us more
aggressively assertive and defensive when that memory is challenged,
however.

>no one has
>ever challenged the accuracy of what I wrote.

Chrissie certainly challenged your accuracy, in Lineland as I noted. You
spent a long, tortured paragraph trying to convince her why you were right
and she was wrong about her own recollection.

My point remains that it's impossible to judge "accuracy" in your negative
and scurrilous reports about Pynchon, when what you offer is first-person
recollection plus reporting and interpretation of what Chrissie told you.
-Doug


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