better version of Playboy Japan interview with TRP

[Paul Mackin]

A lot of "what ifs" is this post.

        P.

Dave Monroe wrote:

> This is a "forty year silence"?  Oh, wait, I see
> that's been covered already ...
>
> --- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> > Book blurbs for (mainly) personal friends, two-three
> > letters to the editor, a telephone call made to CNN,
> > non-fiction articles, a book review or two,
> > and an exchange by fax of questions and answers for
> > a biography are very different - in purpose,
> > content, and context - from an actual current
> > affairs media interview instigated by a journalist.
>
> ... though another question then would be, why forty
> years, vs., say, Pynchon's entire life?  Esp. if this
> is "a first."  My understanding is, Doug heard of this
> from John Krafft,  Would y'all be so rabid about this
> had Professor Krafft posted on the existence of the
> article, a translation of it, even, instead of Doug?
> No.  This ruckus is being raised, in the first
> instance, at least, in order to raise it with Doug.  I
> suspect it persists, however, because pynchon might
> very well be saying something you, some of you, at any
> rate, don't want him to say.  Not quite sure what that
> might be, but ... but, well, too late to simply post
> those very same comments without attributing them to
> Pynchon and then see how y'all respond.  Next time,
> then ...
>
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