that interview

[Jasper Fidget]

Do us all a favor there, Doug, and just snap a photo of the magazine and
article and post it to the old online-journalist site.  You've said you
received a copy of it, right?  That might settle a few doubts anyway....
I'm not sure why you expect Robert to prove a negative here...?

Jasper Fidget

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org 
> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Doug Millison
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 8:41 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: that interview
> 
> 
> "jbor"
> " fact that it seems to be two or three months old and didn't 
> surface anywhere else
> - except on this list, of course - certainly gives due cause 
> to doubt its relevance, at least, if not indeed its authenticity."
> 
> This doesn't make much sense.
> 
> The interview has been published in Playboy Japan, there's no 
> doubt about that.  Assuming just for a moment that this is 
> the first time in 40 years that Pynchon has broken his 
> silence (I don't agree with that statement, by the way, but 
> admit it  for the sake of argument here despite the many 
> times that Pynchon has "spoken" in his own voice outside of 
> his fiction), surely that would be "relevant".
> 
> It hasn't become Page 1 news may be explained in part by the 
> relative paucity of journalists outside Japan who can read 
> Japanese, I suppose. Lots of American celebrities appear in 
> the strangest situations in Japanese media without comment on 
> same back here at home -- I suspect that has more to do with 
> the inward gaze of the typical mass media US journalist than 
> with the "relevance" of any given story.
> 
> Whats' the connection between the lack of news about the 
> Pynchon interview in Playboy Japan and whether or not the 
> interview is authentic?
> 
> Should we assume that you're just going to continue to throw 
> potshos and not dig up any support for your debunking claims?
> 
>