better version of Playboy Japan interview with TRP

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, thanks for the clarification, and I'll note that
you've at least not been insulting, so far as I've
noticed.  But the nigh-unto-assault on that interview
has involved a flurry of activity on any number of
fronts, with people raising (often, legitimate,
granted) questions which they nonetheless do not seem
to have attempted to even begin to find answers for,
which, coupled with the insults routinely thrown at
Doug along the way, read to me for all the world as as
much an attempt to discredit Doug as to perhaps
discredit that interview as well (and why? was it
something Pynchon might indeed have said?).  Me, I'm
surprised as well that fans here often seem to hold
political views at odds with what I consider to be
those apparent in those Pynchonian texts, but ... but,
hey, I can read T.S. Eliot or Ezra Pound or Wyndham
Lewis or Louis-Ferdinand Celine or ... with interest,
despite my own politics.  But I would note that Doug
is merely the most overt--or, at least, the most
prolificf, at least in this regard--of those here
apparently claiming Pynchon for "their" side, and much
of this arguent is being staged with those with
similar agendas.  I do not include you in this regard,
Otto ...

--- Otto <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
> "What I continue to find fascinating is how people
> who hold political views that appear to differ so
> with those that undergird Pynchon's work still
> manage to to enjoy his fiction."
> Doug Millison, January 6, 2002
> 
> For me, this has been the sentence I criticise Doug
> for! He's judging the political views of some other
> P-listers and he's telling us what political
> views Pynchon got. And then he says "appear" so he
> can say later that he has never said this really, it
> only "appeared" to be this way

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