Jules talking trash about Pynchon

[Doug Millison]

(sending Jules response to my email that I originally failed to send to the
p-list, too).

At 10:22 AM 07/7/97 -0800, you wrote:
>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!

Sure. The lapse is usually temporary. You lose the thread because you go off
on a set of tangents. Also, if the material is just mnot there, you would
not be able to access it at all. I write about what I remember, not waht I
forgot. Just because I might have forgotten some things, such as the exact
shade of color of his eyes, doesn't affect what I do remember.

>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.

She didn't successfully challenge it. It's not a long tortured explanation.
It is a sentence by sentence description of what actually happened as
opposed to what she chose to say about it, which I consider post-publication
remorse. If she felt thatw ay, she should have said something when I
originally showed her the article and made her read it line for line. You
notice that she did not choose to continue the argument but went on to other
points.

>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.

Fine. I suggest you go do some resaerch and find someone other than Peter
Giordano who will agree that I am a hack and a fraud and a liar. Please
write this all up in the form of a legal brief with depositions and notary
seals. I'm sure you can find someone to publish it and, if not, you can post
it on your website. Meanwhile, go to your room and stop bothering people
with your suspicions. We get the point.


--Jules Siegel Apdo 1764 Cancun QR 77501
http://www.yucatanweb.com/siegel/jsiegel.htm


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